Comprehensive insect physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology. Volume 4, Regulation: digestion, nutrition, excretion /

In this volume, seven of the chapters deal with feeding and diet, which is reasonable since insects consume an estimated l5-20% of all the world's planted crops. Many insects even have a specialized larval feeding stage that usually occupies a different ecological niche to the adult and so does...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Kerkut, G. A. (Editor), Gilbert, Lawrence I. (Lawrence Irwin), 1929-2017 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Pergamon Press, 1985.
Series:Comprehensive insect physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology ; volume 4
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505 0 |a Front Cover; Regulation: Digestion, Nutrition, Excretion; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface to Volume 4; Contributors to Volume 4; Contents of All Volumes; Chapter 1. Regulation of Feeding Behaviour; 1 INITIATION OF INGESTION; 2 CONTINUATION OF FEEDING; 3 TERMINATION OF FEEDING: CONTROL OF MEAL SIZE; 4 LENGTH OF TIME BETWEEN MEALS; 5 CHANGES THROUGH THE LIFE HISTORY; CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Feeding Mechanisms; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE FEEDING APPARATUS; 3 CUHING AND CHEWING; 4 PIERCING AND SUCKING; 5 FEEDING ON FREE LIQUIDS; 6 PUMPING. 
505 8 |a 7 CATCHING MOBILE PREY -- THE DRAGONFLY LARVA8 FILTER FEEDING; 9 SALIVA; 10 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Food Consumption and Utilization; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE PARADIGM OF NUTRITIONAL ECOLOGY; 3 EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; 4 VARIETY OF FEEDING PATTERNS; 5 LARVAL CONSUMPTION AND UTILIZATION OF FOOD FOR GROWTH; 6 ADULT CONSUMPTION AND UTILIZATION OF FOOD FOR REPRODUCTION AND DISPERSAL; 7 FOOD QUALITY; 8 FEEDING GUILD PERFORMANCE; 9 ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES; 10 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Structure of the Digestive System; INTRODUCTION. 
505 8 |a 1 GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE ALIMENTARY CANAL2 MIDGUT; 3 HINDGUT; 4 MODIFICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MICROORGANISMS; 5 ALIMENTARY CANAL AND ECDYSIS; 6 MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF GUT ULTRASTRUCTURE; 7 SALIVARY GLANDS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Coordination of Digestion; INTRODUCTION; 1 CHANGES IN THE ACTIVITY OF MIDGUT ENZYMES; 2 REGULATION OF ACTIVITY OF MIDGUT ENZYMES; 3 LOSS OF ENZYME ACTIVITY; 4 REGULATION OF SALIVARY SECRETION; 5 REGULATION OF PASSAGE OF FOOD THROUGH THE GUT; 6 COORDINATION OF DIGESTION; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. Absorption; INTRODUCTION; 1 METHODS OF STUDYING ABSORPTION. 
505 8 |a 2 FACTORS AFFECTING ABSORPTION3 THE ABSORPTION PROCESS; 4 CARBOHYDRATES; 5 AMINO ACIDS, PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; 6 LIPIDS AND LIPID-SOLUBLE COMPOUNDS; 7 WATER, INORGANIC IONS AND WATER-SOLUBLE VITAMINS; 8 XENOBIOTICS AND MISCELLANEOUS COMPOUNDS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Biochemistry of Digestion; INTRODUCTION; 1 DIGESTIVE ENZYMES; 2 DIET AND DIGESTION; 3 DEVELOPMENTAL ONTOGENY OF DIGESTIVE ENZYMES; 4 DIGESTION OF SPECIALIZED DIETS; 5 NON-INTESTINAL DIGESTION; 6 CONTRIBUTION OF INTESTINAL MICRO-ORGANISMS; 7 CONTROL OF ENZYME SYNTHESIS; 8 BIOSYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING; REFERENCES. 
505 8 |a Chapter 8. Nutrition: Organisms1 INTRODUCTION; 2 METHODOLOGIES; 3 NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS; 4 CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. Nutrition: Artificial Diets; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 TYPES OF DIET; 3 NUTRITIONAL COMPONENTS OF ARTIFICIAL DIETS; 4 GELS AND BULKING AGENTS; 5 WATER; 6 FEEDING INDUCERS; 7 DIET STABILIZATION AND ANTIMICROBIALS; 8 PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF DIET; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DISCLAIMER; REFERENCES; Chapter 10. The Excretory System: Structure and Physiology; 1 MALPIGHIAN TUBULES; 2 ANTERIOR HINDGUT; 3 RECTUM; 4 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 11. Nitrogenous Excretion. 
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