Effect of dietary amino acids on the size and alary polymorphism of Aphis fabae |
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Authors: | PM Leckstein M Llewellyn |
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Institution: | Biology Department, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill, London W8 7AH UK |
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Abstract: | Aphis fabae was reared on synthetic diets omitting individual amino acids and amino acid groups. Methionine and histidine deletions induced apterae formation and prevented the aphids from reaching the adult stage, whereas arginine, leucine, lysine, and proline deletions induced alatae formation. The omission of alanine, cysteine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, and tyrosine reduced the size attained by adult alatae and together with methionine and histidine, these amino acids are considered to be essential for normal growth by A. fabae. A delay in parturition occurred in aphids reared on certain deficient diets and there is an association between the size attained by alatae and the delay in parturition. |
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