Blood-sucking bugs as a gentle method for blood-collection in water budget studies using doubly labelled water

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 318-324

  Voigt, Christian C ^a   Michener, Robert ^b   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^b   Von Helversen, Otto ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood sucking bugs; Dipetalogaster maximus; Doubly labelled water method; Energy budget; Glossophaga soricina; Minimally invasive; Sugar concentration; Water budget

Indexed keywords

SUGAR; WATER;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CALORIC INTAKE; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EXPECTATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; MALE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; QUANTUM YIELD; SUCKING; SUGAR INTAKE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALIA; DIPETALOGASTER MAXIMUS; GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; HETEROPTERA; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 27644598460     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.07.011     Document Type: Article

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