Trade-off of energy metabolites as well as body color phenotypes for starvation and desiccation resistance in montane populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 102-113

  Parkash, Ravi ^a   Aggarwal, Dau Dayal ^a  

^a MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Body color phenotypes; D. melanogaster; Energy metabolites; Starvation and desiccation resistance; Trade off

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; LIPID; PROTEIN; TREHALOSE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRY MASS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; STARVATION; STRESS; TOTAL BODY WATER; WATER LOSS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 83555179166     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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