Plant sterols and host plant suitability for a phloem-feeding insect

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 484-491

  Behmer, Spencer T ^a   Grebenok, Robert J ^b   Douglas, Angela E ^c,d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphid; Cholesterol; Hemiptera; Myzus persicae; Nutritional ecology; Phloem sap; Sterol nutrition

Indexed keywords

APHID; BIOCONTROL AGENT; DICOTYLEDON; HONEYDEW; HOST PLANT; NATURAL ENEMY; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; STEROL; TOBACCO;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. PEKINENSIS; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MYZUS PERSICAE; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79955521334     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01810.x     Document Type: Article

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