Crickets are not a free lunch: Protein capture from scalable organic side-streams via high-density populations of Acheta domesticus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Lundy, Mark E ^a   Parrella, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PROTEIN INTAKE;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; ACID DETERGENT FIBER; ARTICLE; BIOMASS CONVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUDE FAT; DIETARY INTAKE; FEED CONVERSION; FOOD WASTE; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; CHICKEN; FOOD GRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GRYLLIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POULTRY; PROTEIN INTAKE;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; GALLUS GALLUS; GRYLLIDAE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DIETARY PROTEINS; EDIBLE GRAIN; GRYLLIDAE; POULTRY;

EID: 84929494435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118785     Document Type: Article

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