%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Hamdi, F.
%A Chadoeuf, J.
%A Bonato, Olivier
%T Functional relationships between plant feeding and prey feeding for a zoophytophagous bug
%D 2013
%L fdi:010060544
%G ENG
%J Physiological Entomology
%@ 0307-6962
%K N-15 content ; Macrolophus pygmaeus ; phytophagy ; stable isotope ; zoophytophagy
%M ISI:000322743600008
%N 3
%P 241-245
%R 10.1111/phen.12028
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010060544
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2013/09/010060544.pdf
%V 38
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The consumption of plants by the zoophytophagous bug Macrolophus pygmaeus Rambur (Heteroptera : Miridae) in relation to the presence or absence of prey is monitored for 7 days. Tobacco plants enriched with N-15, a stable, nonradioactive isotope of nitrogen, are used for characterization. In the absence of prey, the relationship between time and N-15 content (which equates to plant feeding) is linear, with a constant daily accumulation of N-15; however, if prey are available, the mathematical relationship becomes curvilinear. From day 1 to day 5, feeding on plants is independent of the consumption of prey. The rate of N-15 accumulation decreases in the presence of prey after day 5, whereas the number of prey eaten remains unchanged.
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