Divergent nutrition-related adaptations in two cockroach populations inhabiting different environments

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 330-339

  Mira, Alex ^a,b   Raubenheimer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Endosymbiotic bacteria; Growth rate; Nitrogen metabolism; Periplaneta americana; Starvation; Ultranumerary stadia; Water storage

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COCKROACH; NUTRITION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTARIA; BLATTIDAE; DICTYOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 0036955249     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.2002.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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