Post-ingestive feedbacks and associative learning regulate the intake of unsuitable sterols in a generalist grasshopper

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 739-748

  Behmer, Spencer T ^a,b   Elias, Damian O ^a   Bernays, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Feeding; Grasshopper; Post ingestive feedback; Schistocerca gregaria; Sterol

Indexed keywords

PHYTOSTEROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD; GRASSHOPPER; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINACH;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHEMORECEPTORS; FEEDBACK; FOOD; GRASSHOPPERS; PHYTOSTEROLS; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; SCHISTOCERCA AMERICANA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 0033103699     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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