... stoichiometry Geometric framework Grasshopper Phosphate Synthetic diet Diet choice The relative availability of various nutrients strongly affects the growth and fitness of herbivores, whose biomass generally contains much greater concentrations and different ratios of elements such as nitrogen (N...

... a diet rich in n-6 PUFA compared with the groups fed diets either rich in n-3 PUFA or MUFA, the latter two groups did not show unusually low torpor frequencies. The results of the additional diet choice experiment indicated that hamsters in short photoperiod select food with only a slight excess of n-6...