Advances in Insect Physiology
Subtitle: Volume 22 (Advances in Insect Physiology)
Contributors: Peter Evans (Editor); V. B. Wigglesworth (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: January 28, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780120242221
Subjects: Animal physiology; Insects (entomology); Entomology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science / Physiology; Life Sciences - Biochemistry
First sentence: The dietary need for sterols in insects was first established in the blowfly, Lucilia sericata (Hobson, 1935a), and is the only proven nutritional difference between insects and most other animals.