Sterol metabolic constraints as a factor contributing to the maintenance of diet mixing in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 219-230

  Behmer, Spencer T ^a,b   Elias, Damian O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SPINASTEROL; CHOLESTEROL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LATHOSTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL DERIVATIVE; STIGMASTEROL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; MOLTING; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PHYTOSTEROLS; SITOSTEROLS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STIGMASTEROL;

ACRIDIDAE; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA AMERICANA;

EID: 0034084637     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316728     Document Type: Article

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