Flight-muscle adenylate pool responses to flight demands and thermal constraints in individual Colias eurytheme (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3145-3154

  Kohane, Michael J ^a,b   Watt, Ward B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Life Sciences Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenylate; Butterfly; Colias eurytheme; Flight; High performance liquid chromatography; Individual metabolic performance; Insect; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FLYING; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERMOREGULATION;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LEPIDOPTERA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0033226776     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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