... of increasing respiration rate to meet the demands of protein biosynthesis ( Fig. 4 ) requires additional energy to fuel metabolism. Specifically, the increase in respiration at 28°C for larval family 9, which has a Q 10 of 2.4, is 594 µJ day −1 . This increase in available energy is sufficient to meet...

... introducing double bonds into fatty acids, are crucial for the biosynthesis of these chemical signals. Δ12-desaturases catalyse the biosynthesis of linoleic acid by introducing a second double bond into oleic acid, but have been identified in only a few animal species. Here, we report the functional...

...: Dietary aspartic acid, asparagine, glutamic acid and glutamine are catabolized and re-synthesized in metabolic pathways for the synthesis of other amino acids in the aphid- Buchnera system. Buchnera aphidicola Aphid Endosymbiont Glutamic acid Glutamine Aspartic acid Asparagine Biosynthesis...

... mate recognition temperature cuticle cuticular hydrocarbon Drosophila melanogaster ontogeny heat shock biosynthesis sex difference One main function of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHs) is to protect the insect from dessiccation by reducing cuticle permeability to water( Edney, 1967...