Contrasting responses to desiccation and starvation by eggs and neonates of two Lepidoptera

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 594-606

  Woods, H A ^a   Singer, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

DESICCATION; EGG; LARVA; STARVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; STARVATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEHYDRATION; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OVUM; STARVATION;

ANIMALIA; ARCTIIDAE; GRAMMIA; GRAMMIA GENEURA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 0034915358     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322169     Document Type: Article

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