High water-loss rates and rapid dehydration in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus marginatus

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-29

  Bedick, Jon C ^a   Hoback, W Wyatt ^b   Albrecht, Marc C ^b  

^a SHAWNEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

American burying beetle; Bess beetle; Desiccation; Nicrophorus americanus; Tiger beetle; Water loss

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DESICCATION; MORTALITY;

CICINDELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; NICROPHORUS AMERICANUS; NICROPHORUS MARGINATUS; ODONTOTAENIUS DISJUNCTUS; PASSALIDAE; SILPHIDAE;

EID: 33645124034     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2005.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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