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Differential utilization of ash phloem by emerald ash borer larvae: Ash species and larval stage effects
Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 14: 324-330.
Two experiments were performed to determine the extent to which ash species (black, green and white) and larval developmental stage (second, third and fourth instar) affect the efficiency of phloem amino acid utilization by emerald ash borer (EAB) Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) larvae. EAB larvae generally utilized green ash amino acids more efficiently than those of the other two species. For example, the concentrations of only six (two essential) and seven (two essential) amino acids were lower in frass from EAB that fed upon black and white ash than in the corresponding phloem, respectively. By contrast, concentrations of 16 (eight essential) amino acids were lower in the frass from EAB that fed upon green ash than in the phloem. In addition, in green ash, the frass : phloem ratios of 13 amino acids were lower than their counterparts in black and white ash.
Chen, Yigen; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Poland, Therese M. 2012. Differential utilization of ash phloem by emerald ash borer larvae: Ash species and larval stage effects. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 14: 324-330.
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