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Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini)
Bibliography: leaves 95-104.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6106 Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini) Johnson, Shelley Nicolson, Sue W Tets, Ian G van Zoology Bibliography: leaves 95-104. Beetles pollinate over 80% of all flowering plants and feed on the two most common floral rewards, nectar and pollen. Pollen is nutritionally very valuable, being a rich protein and carbohydrate source. However, the hard and highly resistant outer wall (exine) of the grain is an obstacle that pollen-feeders must overcome in order to benefit from the pollen's nutritious protoplasm. There are a variety of mechanisms that pollen-feeders may use to deal with the exine. Collembolans secrete exinase that breaks down the wall, but other pollen-feeders do not produce this enzyme. Pollen-feeders that are unable to ingest grains may either pierce the grain and suck out the contents (thrips and biting-flies) or cause the grain contents to leach out an imbibe the leachate (butterflies and the eucalupt nectar fly). Pollen-feeders that can ingest the grains (bees, syrphid flies, rodents, marsupials, bats and birds) may use osmotic shock, pseudo-germination, exudation, microbial digestion or enzyme penetration to gain access to the protoplasmic contents. Further study is needed to define the details of these methods and whether they are all in use. 2014-08-13T14:03:34Z 2014-08-13T14:03:34Z 2000 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6106 eng application/pdf Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Zoology Johnson, Shelley Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini) |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini) |
| title_full | Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini) |
| title_fullStr | Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini) |
| title_short | Pollen digestion in flower-feeding Scarabaeidae : protea beetles (Cetoniini) and monkey beetles (Hopliini) |
| title_sort | pollen digestion in flower feeding scarabaeidae protea beetles cetoniini and monkey beetles hopliini |
| topic | Zoology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6106 |
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