Nutritional imbalance in an extreme generalist omnivore: tolerance and recovery through complementary food selection

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1253-1262

  Raubenheimer, D ^a   Jones, S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; CARBOHYDRATE; COCKROACH; FOOD SELECTION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OMNIVORY; PROTEIN; TIMESCALE; TOLERANCE;

ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33744997845     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.07.024     Document Type: Article

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