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Effects of an artificial diet on development, reproduction and digestive physiology of Chrysopa septempunctata

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The effects of an artificial diet on growth, development, reproduction and digestive physiology of Chrysopa septempunctata Wesmael were determined. The results showed that the reproduction was highly correlated with weights of females and activities of trypsin-like and chymotrypsin-like enzymes of C. septempunctata. The influences of diet on the digestive physiology such as digestive enzyme activity of a predator may be used to assess the reproductive potential of a predator, and therefore to provide a way to speed up the development and screening of artificial diets.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Danjuan Jin, Heqing Zhang and Shen Zhang for the technical assistance in this study. We also thank the editors and reviewers for their comments and suggestions. This work was supported by 973 Program 2013CB127602 and the agriculture cooperative research fund 2011-G4.

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Liu, F., Liu, C. & Zeng, F. Effects of an artificial diet on development, reproduction and digestive physiology of Chrysopa septempunctata . BioControl 58, 789–795 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-013-9529-8

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