lucilia/carbohydrate

The wound-healing maggot, Lucilia sericata Meigen (Diptera: Calliphoridae), degrades extracellular matrix components by releasing enzymes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the glycosylation profiles of wound slough/eschar from chronic venous leg ulcers and the complementary presence of

An understanding of how arthropods use energy is fundamental to explaining their diverse life histories and adaptation to specific environments. It is also of importance when attempting to predict the impacts of environmental change on patterns of development and phenology. Here, lipid use by the

Insects with access to finite energy resources must allocate these between maintenance and reproduction in a way that maximizes fitness. This will be influenced by a range of life-history characteristics and the environment in which any particular insect species lives. In the present study, females

We withheld sucrose from adults in three lineages of Lucilia cuprina, producing a four-fold greater mortality than in control lineages, in order to impose direct selection for carbohydrate starvation resistance. The frequency of autogeny (maturation of eggs in the absence of adult protein feeding)