Insect meal as renewable source of food for animal feeding: a review

MJ Sánchez-Muros, FG Barroso… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2014 - Elsevier
The massive utilisation in animal feeding of soy or fishmeal poses severe environmental
issues. The insects could be a sustainable protein source. This article documents 150 …

Insects for biodiesel production

F Manzano-Agugliaro, MJ Sanchez-Muros… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, the fat content of insects is studied for its utilization in the production of
biodiesel. The study has shown the great fat potential of insects, highlighting a large number …

Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects

CK Cornwallis, A van't Padje, J Ellers, M Klein… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
For over 300 million years, insects have relied on symbiotic microbes for nutrition and
defence. However, it is unclear whether specific ecological conditions have repeatedly …

[图书][B] Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

ZQ Zhang - 2011 - books.google.com
Abstract For the kingdom Animalia, 1,552,319 species have been described in 40 phyla in a
new evolutionary classification. Among these, the phylum Arthropoda alone represents …

The sponge microbiome project

L Moitinho-Silva, S Nielsen, A Amir, A Gonzalez… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rhododendron delavayi Franch. is globally famous as an ornamental plant. Its distribution in
southwest China covers several different habitats and environments. However, not much …

Phylum Arthropoda. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

ZQ Zhang - Zootaxa, 2013 - biotaxa.org
The Arthropoda is here estimated to have 1,302,809 described species, including 45,769
fossil species (the diversity of fossil taxa is here underestimated for many taxa of the …

Guild‐specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

V Novotny, SE Miller, L Baje, S Balagawi… - Journal of Animal …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The extent to which plant–herbivore feeding interactions are specialized is key to
understand the processes maintaining the diversity of both tropical forest plants and their …

Comparative performances of DNA barcoding across insect orders

M Virgilio, T Backeljau, B Nevado, M De Meyer - BMC bioinformatics, 2010 - Springer
Background Previous studies on insect DNA barcoding provide contradictory results and
suggest not consistent performances across orders. This work aims at providing a general …

Global patterns of insect diversification: towards a reconciliation of fossil and molecular evidence?

FL Condamine, ME Clapham, GJ Kergoat - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Macroevolutionary studies of insects at diverse taxonomic scales often reveal dynamic
evolutionary patterns, with multiple inferred diversification rate shifts. Responses to major …

Zombie-ant fungi across continents: 15 new species and new combinations within Ophiocordyceps. I. Myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species

JPM Araújo, HC Evans, R Kepler… - Studies in …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Ophiocordyceps species infecting ants–the so-called zombie-ant fungi–comprise one of the
most intriguing and fascinating relationships between microbes and animals. They are …