Mechanisms of Nutritional Resource Exploitation by Insects

Dear Colleagues,

Insects, just like any other organism, need to acquire appropriate amounts of specific nutrients in order to thrive and reproduce successfully. Insects have evolved highly sophisticated strategies to locate, memorize and select valuable nutritional resources in complex environments. In this Special Issue, we want to further elucidate the behavioral, physiological/sensory and cognitive mechanisms underlying such sophisticated resource exploitation and nutrient intake regulation across feeding guilds, ecological contexts and social complexities. One aim is to better understand the physiological and/or sensory adaptations that enable resource selection and exploitation in heterogeneous environments. We therefore welcome contributions of studies on nutritional resource exploitation in the field and in the lab as well as studies investigating the sensory, physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying nutrient intake regulation.

Dr. Sara Diana Leonhardt
Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau
Dr. Johannes Spaethe
Guest Editors

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