Effect of different ratios of wheat to corn flour in the diet on the development and isotopic composition (δ13C, δ15N) of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-154

  Focken, Ulfert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beetles; C3 plants; C4 plants; Carbon 13; Diet; Nitrogen 15; Trophic shift

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

BEETLE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; DIET; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAIZE; WHEAT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRIBOLIUM; WHEAT; YEAST;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; POPULATION GROWTH; TRIBOLIUM; TRITICUM; YEASTS; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34250656525     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256010701360520     Document Type: Article

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