Browsing by Subject "carbohydrate"
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(1977)Rats and fish were used to study the effect of diets differing only in carbohydrate supplement on the specific activity of the enzyme acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase which catalyzes the first step in the de novo biosynthesis ...
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(2014-05-07)Despite decades of research, many key aspects related to the physiological processes and mechanisms insect herbivores use to build themselves remain poorly understood, and we especially know very little about how interactions ...
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(2014-03-18)The purpose of this analysis was to determine whether following a higher protein (HP) diet for 10-weeks promotes a reduction of MetS and the individual NCEP ATP III MetS risk factors better than a higher carbohydrate (HC) ...
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(2009-05-15)Carbon flow into developing ovaries has been reported to be important in seed retention and seed size. Invertase, which cleaves sucrose into glucose and fructose has been shown to be important in rapidly expanding tissue, ...
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(2011-02-22)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 ...
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(2016-12-09)Field crickets in the genus Gryllus are wing polymorphic and have been used for many years as a model for trade-offs between dispersal and reproduction. There are two main morphs of adult crickets. The first has long ...