Plant sterols and host plant suitability for generalist and specialist caterpillars

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-244

  Jing, Xiangfeng ^a   Grebenok, Robert J ^b   Behmer, Spencer T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Insect herbivore; Insect nutrition; Phytosteroid

Indexed keywords

PHYTOSTEROL;

CATERPILLAR; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; EGG PRODUCTION; GENERALIST; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METABOLISM; MOTH; NUTRITION; PUPA; SPECIALIST; STEROL; SURVIVAL; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; METABOLISM; OVIPARITY; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; TOBACCO;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALE; MANDUCA; OVIPARITY; PHYTOSTEROLS; POPULATION GROWTH; PUPA; SPODOPTERA; TOBACCO;

HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855521809     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.11.013     Document Type: Article

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