Three hundred and fifty generations of extreme food specialisation: Testing predictions of nutritional ecology

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-75

  Warbrick Smith, James ^b   Raubenheimer, David ^a   Simpson, Stephen J ^c   Behmer, Spencer T ^d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diamondback moth; Diet breadth; Foraging theory; Lepidoptera; Nutrient balance; Nutritional heterogeneity; Nutritional regulation; Plutella xylostella; Plutellidae

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOMOGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOTH; NICHE BREADTH; NUTRITION; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PREDICTION; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE;

EID: 67650240627     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00870.x     Document Type: Article

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