Flexible responses to visual and olfactory stimuli by foraging Manduca sexta: Larval nutrition affects adult behaviour

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1668, 2009, Pages 2739-2745

  Goyret, Joaquín ^a,c   Kelber, Almut ^b   Pfaff, Michael ^b   Raguso, Robert A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hawkmoth; Lepidoptera; Olfaction; Sensory ecology; Vision

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; RETINOL;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CAROTENOID; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTH; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OLFACTION; PHOTORECEPTION; TRACE ELEMENT; VISUAL CUE; VITAMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BEHAVIOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FORAGING; INFORMATION; LABORATORY; LARVA; MALE; MANDUCA SEXTA; MEAL; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REARING; RETINA; SENSORY SYSTEM; TOBACCO; VISUAL STIMULATION; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 67650863212     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0456     Document Type: Article

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