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VITAMIN K: A GROWTH FACTOR FOR THE HOUSE CRICKET (ORTHOPTERA: GRYLLIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. E. McFarlane
J. E. McFarlane
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec
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Abstract

Vitamin K1 added to a basic diet for the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L.), significantly improves growth of male and female larvae. Growth is significantly better with 18.7 μg K1/g than it is with an equimolar amount of vitamin E. Unlike vitamin E, however, vitamin K1 is without effect on reproduction. Vitamins K3 and K5, and coumarin, have no effect or a slightly inhibiting effect on growth, and no effect on reproduction.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 108 , Issue 4 , April 1976 , pp. 391 - 394
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

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