Proline powers pre-flight warm-up in the African fruit beetle Pachnoda sinuata (cetoniinae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1651-1657

  Auerswald, Lutz ^a   Schneider, Peter ^a,b   Gäde, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

African fruit beetle; Energy metabolism; Insect flight; Metabolite; Pachnoda sinuata; Pre flight warm up; Proline; Respiratory quotient

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031822170     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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