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Adult nutrition and butterfly fitness: effects of diet quality on reproductive output, egg composition, and egg hatching success

BACKGROUND: In the Lepidoptera it was historically believed that adult butterflies rely primarily on larval-derived nutrients for reproduction and somatic maintenance. However, recent studies highlight the complex interactions between storage reserves and adult income, and that the latter may contri...

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Autores principales: Geister, Thorin L, Lorenz, Matthias W, Hoffmann, Klaus H, Fischer, Klaus
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18616795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-5-10