Detecting nutritional state and food source use in field-collected insects that synthesize honeydew oligosaccharides

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 936-946

  Hogervorst, P A M ^a   Wackers F L ^b,c   Romeis, J ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aphidius; Carbohydrate; Chrysoperla carnea; Episyrphus balteatus; High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Indexed keywords

APHID; CARBOHYDRATE; DETECTION METHOD; FEEDING; FOOD; HONEYDEW; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; WHEAT;

APHIDIDAE; APHIDIUS; ARTHROPODA; CHRYSOPERLA CARNEA; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; EPISYRPHUS BALTEATUS; HEXAPODA; NEUROPTERA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34548440396     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01297.x     Document Type: Article

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