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  title info:
    title: Insect herbivore stoichiometry
    sub title: the effect of macronutrient quantity, ratio, and quality (orthoptera: acridae, schistocerca americana)
  name:
    name part: Boswell, Andrew William Payne.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Behmer, Spencer T.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The field of ecological stoichiometry has been dominated by studies focusing on aquatic & benthic microinvertabrates with less attention given to herbivorous insects. These organisms rely on their food source(s) to supply all of the building blocks (elements) they need in order to complete their life cycle. Since insect herbivores do not have the same elemental composition as the plants they use for food the question arises; of how they go about building themselves. We investigated what happened when grasshoppers were fed diets with various macronutrient profiles, their total amounts, and when the protein quality varied. We discovered that under controlled conditions when using a high quality protein source that grasshoppers are able to maintain a strict level of elemental homeostasis, but that the elements directly related to manipulations made in the food seem to vary (carbon, which is associated with carbohydrates and nitrogen, associated with protein). We also discovered that when the quality of protein changes an immature grasshoppers elemental stoichiometry loses some of this strict homeostatic regulation.
  note: by Andrew William Payne Boswell.
  note: "Major Subject: Entomology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-02-28 11:02:00).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7292
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major entomology
  subject:
    topic: geometric framework
  subject:
    topic: carbohydrate
  subject:
    topic: stoichiometry
  subject:
    topic: protein
  subject:
    topic: grasshopper
  subject:
    topic: amino acids
  subject:
    topic: ecological stoichiometry
  subject:
    topic: insect
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7292
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 110310
    record change date: 20151202115723.0
    record identifier: in00002596916