... for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 6 2 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum osmoregulation phagostimulation phloem sap sucrose Organisms live within their environmental limits or, more precisely, within a multidimensional envelope...

...G. Febvay; Y. Rahbé; M. Rynkiewicz; J. Guillaud; G. Bonnot ABSTRACT The fate of sucrose, the major nutrient of an aphid’s natural food, was explored by radiolabeling in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum . To investigate the influence of nitrogen quality of food on amino acid neosynthesis, pea...

...T. L. Wilkinson; D. A. Ashford; J. Pritchard; A. E. Douglas ABSTRACT Pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum , containing their symbiotic bacteria (untreated aphids) and experimentally deprived of their bacteria by treatment with the antibiotic rifampicin (antibiotic-treated aphids) were reared...

... of respiration of [U- 14 C]sucrose by groups of three adult Acyrthosiphon pisum apterae, feeding on artificial diet containing 25 % w/v sucrose. The results are calculated as equivalent O 2 uptake. The line was fitted to the data of the three experiments using equation Fig. 3 shows the effect...