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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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University of Arizona - (Tucson, Arizona, United States)

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln - (Lincoln, United States)

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln - (Lincoln, United States)

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Not just the usual suspects: insect herbivore populations and communities are associated with multiple plant nutrients.

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Metabolic rate is canalized in the face of variable life history and nutritional environment

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Protein-carbohydrate regulation in Helicoverpa amigera and H. punctigera and how diet protein-carbohydrate content affects insect susceptibility to Bt toxins.

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Microbial symbionts shape the sterol profile of the xylem-feeding woodwasp, Sirex noctilio.

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Investigation of mechanical properties of tibia and femur articulations of insect joints with different joint functions

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Three hundred and fifty generations of extreme food specialisation: testing predictions of nutritional ecology

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Nutrition as a neglected factor in insect herbivore susceptibility to Bt toxins.

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Effects of protein and carbohydrate on an insect herbivore: the vista from a fitness landscape.

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Lifetime consequences of food protein-carbohydrate content for an insect herbivore

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Sterol metabolic constraints as a factor contributing to the maintenance of diet mixing in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

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Optimal foraging when regulating intake of multiple nutrients

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Food distance and its effect on nutrient balancing in a mobile insect herbivore

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Diet micronutrient balance matters: How the ratio of dietary sterols/steroids affects development, growth and reproduction in two lepidopteran insects.

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Behavioural correlates of phenotypic plasticity in mouthpart chemoreceptor numbers in locusts.

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Foraging by generalist grasshoppers: Two different strategies

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Insect Sterol Nutrition: Physiological Mechanisms, Ecology, and Applications.

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Quantifying Plant Soluble Protein and Digestible Carbohydrate Content, Using Corn (Zea mays) As an Exemplar.

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Seasonality directs contrasting food collection behavior and nutrient regulation strategies in ants.

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Same host-plant, different sterols: variation in sterol metabolism in an insect herbivore community.

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Evolving resistance to obesity in an insect.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Overturning dogma: tolerance of insects to mixed-sterol diets is not universal.

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Stability of AtVSP in the insect digestive canal determines its defensive capability.

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Sterol/steroid metabolism and absorption in a generalist and specialist caterpillar: effects of dietary sterol/steroid structure, mixture and ratio.

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HERBIVORE FORAGING IN CHEMICALLY HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS: NUTRIENTS AND SECONDARY METABOLITES

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Impact of diet quality on demographic attributes in adult grasshoppers and the nitrogen limitation hypothesis

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Colony-level macronutrient regulation in ants: mechanisms, hoarding and associated costs

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Structural, tribological, and mechanical properties of the hind leg joint of a jumping insect: Using katydids to inform bioinspired lubrication systems.

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Importance of dietary nitrogen and carbohydrates to survival, growth, and reproduction in adults of the grasshopper Ageneotettix deorum (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

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Metal hyperaccumulation in plants: mechanisms of defence against insect herbivores

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Revisiting macronutrient regulation in the polyphagous herbivore Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): New insights via nutritional geometry.

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The importance of dissolved N:P ratios on mayfly (Baetis spp.) growth in high-nutrient detritus-based streams

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Long-Chain n-3 Fatty Acids Attenuate Oncogenic KRas-Driven Proliferation by Altering Plasma Membrane Nanoscale Proteolipid Composition.

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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The nutritional significance of sterol metabolic constraints in the generalist grasshopper Schistocerca americana.

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Variable rewards and discrimination ability in an insect herbivore: what and how does a hungry locust learn?

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Effects of diet on titratable acid-base excretion in grasshoppers.

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Macronutrient regulation in the Rasberry crazy ant (Nylanderia sp nr. pubens)

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Animal behaviour: feeding the superorganism.

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Herbivore foraging in chemically heterogeneous environments: Nutrients and secondary metabolites

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Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology.

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Nutrient regulation in relation to diet breadth: a comparison of Heliothis sister species and a hybrid.

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Evaluation of a microbial inhibitor in artificial diets of a generalist caterpillar, Heliothis virescens.

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Physiological Status Drives Metabolic Rate in Mediterranean Geckos Infected with Pentastomes.

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Herbivory improves the fitness of predatory beetles.

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Dietary sterols/steroids and the generalist caterpillar Helicoverpa zea: physiology, biochemistry and midgut gene expression.

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Macronutrient Regulation in the Tropical Terrestrial Ant Ectatomma ruidum (Formicidae): A Field Study in Costa Rica

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Nutrient regulation strategies differ between cricket morphs that trade-off dispersal and reproduction

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Effects of diet quality on performance and nutrient regulation in an omnivorous katydid

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Spatio-Temporal, Genotypic, and Environmental Effects on Plant Soluble Protein and Digestible Carbohydrate Content: Implications for Insect Herbivores with Cotton as an Exemplar.

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Omnivory in predatory lady beetles is widespread and driven by an appetite for sterols

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Phytosterol structure and its impact on feeding behaviour in the generalist grasshopper Schistocerca americana

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Prey nutrient content creates omnivores out of predators.

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Plant sterols and host plant suitability for a phloem-feeding insect

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A dietary test of putative deleterious sterols for the aphid Myzus persicae.

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A correlation between macronutrient balancing and insect host-plant range: evidence from the specialist caterpillar Spodoptera exempta (Walker).

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Food mixing strategies in the desert locust: effects of phase, distance between foods, and food nutrient content

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DIET CHOICE BY A GRASS-FEEDING GRASSHOPPER BASED ON THE NEED FOR A LIMITING NUTRIENT

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Insect sterol nutrition and physiology: A global overview

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Summer and fall ants have different physiological responses to food macronutrient content.

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Coexisting generalist herbivores occupy unique nutritional feeding niches.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Plant sterols and host plant suitability for generalist and specialist caterpillars.

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State-dependent learned valuation drives choice in an invertebrate.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Impact of dietary sterols on life-history traits of a caterpillar

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Post-ingestive feedbacks and associative learning regulate the intake of unsuitable sterols in a generalist grasshopper

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Nutrition affects insect susceptibility to Bt toxins.

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Frequency-dependent food selection in locusts: a geometric analysis of the role of nutrient balancing

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The influence of proline on diet selection: sex-specific feeding preferences by the grasshoppers Ageneotettix deorum and Phoetaliotes nebrascensis (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

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Going back to the basics: the use of cricket powder as a protein supplement in artificial ant diets

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A geometric analysis of nutrient regulation in the generalist caterpillar Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval).

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Plant phloem sterol content: forms, putative functions, and implications for phloem-feeding insects.

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Phytosterol metabolism and absorption in the generalist grasshopper, Schistocerca americana (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

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Field application of the geometric framework reveals a multistep strategy of nutrient regulation in a leaf-miner

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Nutritional physiology of life-history trade-offs: how food protein-carbohydrate content influences life-history traits in the wing-polymorphic cricket Gryllus firmus.

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Lipogenesis in a wing-polymorphic cricket: Canalization versus morph-specific plasticity as a function of nutritional heterogeneity.

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First evidence of protein-carbohydrate regulation in a plant bug (Lygus hesperus).

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Aphid growth and reproduction on plants with altered sterol profiles: Novel insights using Arabidopsis mutant and overexpression lines.

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Water stress in grasslands: dynamic responses of plants and insect herbivores

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A comparison of nutritional regulation in solitarious- and gregarious-phase nymphs of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

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Insect Herbivore Outbreaks Viewed through a Physiological Framework: Insights from Orthoptera

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The physiology of sterol nutrition in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.

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Canisius College: Insect sterol requirements: a novel target for controlling insect herbivore pests

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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USDA-National Institute of Food And Agriculture

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Collaborative Research: Nutritional Physiology of Life History Allocation Trade-Offs

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Nutritionally-mediated variation in Helicoverpa zea susceptibility to Bt transgenic crops

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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USDA-National Institute of Food And Agriculture

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Texas A&M University; Entomology; 2475 TAMU

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Honey Bee Nutrition Might Be Key To Healthy Colonies

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Honey bee nutrition might be key to healthy populations

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New Institute To Study Behavioral Plasticity In Locusts

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Marquess, Richelle Renee (2016-12). The Role of Food Protein-Carbohydrate Content on Nutrient Regulation Strategies and Wing Morph Determination in the Wing Polymorphic Cricket Gryllus firmus. Master's Thesis.

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Martin, Angela Michele (2015-08). The Effects of Sterols on Drosophila melanogaster: Physiology and Biochemistry. Master's Thesis.

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Deans, Carrie Ann (2015-08). The Interaction between Nutrition and Insect Stress Response in a Cotton Model System. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Lenhart, Paul Alvarado (2014-05). Nutrient Niches: an Investigation of Nutritional Ecology in a Generalist Herbivore Community. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Le Gall, Marion (2014-05). Diet-mixing in a Generalist Herbivore: Trade-offs Between Nutrient and Allelochemical Regulation. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Insect Physiology & Behavior Research Group