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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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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 |