... compensatory Water is widely regarded as the most important molecule of life, and an organism's ability to cope with changes in its internal water content is essential for survival. In particular, loss of internal water is a common threat, arising from evaporation into air, during the excretion...

.... The mixture consisted of a 41:46:33:47:52:46:37:28 ratio of leucine:glutamine:serine:methionine:phenyl-alanine: lysine: valine: alanine (a total of 0 0125 moll -1 amino acids). This represented the ratio, present in the artificial diet, of those amino acids implicated in compensatory feeding ( Abisgold...