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INVERSION IN THE ORDER OF FOOD SUPERIORITY BETWEEN TEMPERATURES EFFECTED BY NUTRIENT BALANCE IN THE FLY LARVA AGRIA HOUSEI (DIPTERA: SARCOPHAGIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. L. House
H. L. House
Affiliation:
Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Belleville, Ontario
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Abstract

The food value of two synthetic diets for the fly larva Agria housei inverted between two temperatures, 15 °C and 30 °C. The balance of nutrients, particularly effected by the amino acid and lipid mixtures, glucose, thiamine HCl, and calcium pantothenate, was varied in the design of the two diets so that the rate of larval development axenically on one diet was superior to that on the other diet at 30 °C, but inferior to that on the other diet at 15 °C, relatively; for in any case the rate was slower at 15 °C. Differences between the rates on the diets within each given temperature were statistically significant.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 104 , Issue 10 , October 1972 , pp. 1559 - 1564
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1972

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