Utilisation of substrates during tethered flight with and without lift generation in the african fruit beetle Pachnoda sinuata (cetoniinae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2333-2342

  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; Alanine; Energy metabolism; Flight; Insect; Metabolite; Pachnoda sinuata; Proline

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; PROLINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FAT BODY; FLYING; FORELIMB; HEMOLYMPH; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FAT BODY; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GLYCOGEN; HEMOLYMPH; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROLINE; WEIGHT-BEARING; WING;

ANIMALIA; CETONIINAE; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PACHNODA; PACHNODA SINUATA;

EID: 0032143968     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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