Abstract：
:Many animals have been shown to select among nutritionally complementary foods to reach a specific balance of nutrients that optimizes key life history traits. Nutritional ecology theory, however, predicts that an animal with a diet that is very stable in its composition, and with nutritional requirements that do not vary in their balance through time, would not need to display such mechanisms of regulation. Here we use the Australian termite Nasutitermes exitiosus as a model to test this prediction for the first time. We used the nutritional geometric framework to investigate the regulation of carbohydrate and protein, as well as the effects on foraging behaviour of protein type and group caste composition and size. Our results support the prediction of nutritional ecology, as termites failed to actively defend a well-defined macronutrient ratio. Termites maintained food collection relatively constant across protein type and group composition, and only appear to vary their collection by avoiding diets too rich in protein.
journal_name
J Insect Physioljournal_title
Journal of insect physiologyauthors
Poissonnier LA,Simpson SJ,Dussutour A,Buhl Jdoi
10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.103983subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-01-01 00:00:00pages
103983eissn
0022-1910issn
1879-1611pii
S0022-1910(19)30074-5journal_volume
120pub_type
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