Substrate usage and its regulation during flight and swimming in the backswimmer, Notonecta glauca

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-93

  Gäde, Gerd ^a   Auerswald, Lutz ^a   Predel, Reinhard ^b   Marco, Heather G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Saxon Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

AKH peptide; Backswimmer; Energy substrates; Heteroptera; Insect flight; Mass spectrometry; Peptide sequence; Swimming activity

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

AESHNIDAE; ANAX; ANAX IMPERATOR; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; NOTONECTA; NOTONECTA GLAUCA; NOTONECTIDAE; ODONATA;

EID: 1642399891     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6962.2004.0375.x     Document Type: Article

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