CinP.
fimata was with high quality diet, i.e. the lowest
amount of (
Surprisingly, the strongest decline in
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C depleted) body fat stored in tissues.
ossibly, this was due to an altered metabolism.
resumably, the N concentration of the food source
affected the physiological status of the Collembolan
and stimulated growth and fecundity (Booth
and Anderson, 1979; Lavy and Verhoef, 1996). In
fact, rearing P. fimata with high quality diet altered
phospholipid fatty acid patterns (Haubert et al.,
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