The beneficial acclimation hypothesis versus acclimation of specific traits: Physiological change in water-stressed Manduca sexta caterpillars

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 32-44

  Woods, H A ^a   Harrison, J F ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; WATER STRESS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIET; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; DIET; LARVA; MANDUCA; WATER DEPRIVATION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

EID: 0035064928     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319302     Document Type: Article

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