Differential allocation of protein resources to flight muscles and reproductive organs in the flightless wing-polymorphic bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.) (Heteroptera)

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-188

  Socha, R ^a   Sula J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Flight muscles; Methoprene; Proteins; Reproductive organs; Resource allocation; Starvation; Wing morphs

Indexed keywords

METHOPRENE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HETEROPTERA; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HETEROPTERA; MALE; METHOPRENE; MUSCLES; OVARY; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; STARVATION; WING;

HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS;

EID: 38349131346     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-007-0209-9     Document Type: Article

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