...: Nutritional landscape reveals a nutrient-mediated trade-off between key life-history traits and energy storage in the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor . Dietary self-selection Geometric framework Life-history traits Macronutrient Nutritional optima Tenebrio molitor National Research...

... honeybees regulate their intake of dietary essential amino acids and fat to a ratio of 1:2. Honeybees gain weight when fed diets high in fat. Bee Nutrient regulation Essential amino acids Protein Lipid Geometric framework Protein and fat are essential macronutrients required in most...

... to nutritional targets ideal for survival. These intake targets may drive pollen collection behavior in the field. Foraging behavior Geometric framework Nutrient regulation Nutritional ecology Pollination Pollinator health Bee population declines are linked to many interacting factors...

... 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...

... in the diet affects nutrient balancing has rarely been studied. Recent research using the Geometric Framework for Nutrition has revealed that forager honeybees who receive much of their dietary EAAs from floral nectar and not from solid protein have relatively low requirements for dietary EAAs. Here, we...

... ) † Present address: Laboratory of Protein Synthesis and Expression, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Japan 20 6 2012 15 9 2012 © 2013. 2013 phenotypic plasticity nutrition digestion geometric framework Locusts of both sexes...

... for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 22 11 2011 © 2012. 2012 dietary restriction dehydration Euclidean metric fruit fly geometric framework macronutrient Nutritional regulation entails a complex interplay between physiological and behavioural processes. Physiological needs...

... geometric techniques that combine mixture triangles and intake plots from the geometric framework, we: (1) demonstrate that cats balance their macronutrient intake, (2) estimate the composition of the target balance and (3) reveal the priorities given to different macronutrients under dietary conditions...

... even under resting conditions. REFERENCES Abisgold J. D. , Simpson S. J. , Douglas A. E. ( 1994 ). Nutrient regulation in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum: application of a novel geometric framework to sugar and amino acid consumption . Physiol. Entomol. 19 , 95 - 102...