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The effect of nutrient stress on life history parameters of the black bean aphid, Aphis fabae scop
S R Leather1, S A Ward1, A F G Dixon1
1School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK.
Abstract:
Experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of brief spells of starvation on the longevity and age-specific reproduction of A. fabae. Increasing the duration of the starvation period reduced the aphids' ability to resettle when returned to a host, but no longer-term effects on mortality were found. Secondly, as predicted, starvation reduced life-time fecundity, but increased the reproductive rate immediately after nutrition improved.
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