Water Costs of Gas Exchange by a Speckled Cockroach and a Darkling Beetle

Respiratory water loss during metabolic gas exchange is an unavoidable cost of living for terrestrial insects. It has been suggested to depend on several factors, such as the mode of gas exchange (convective vs. diffusive), species habitat (aridity), body size and measurement conditions (temperature...

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Published in:	Insects
Main Authors:	Waseem Abbas, Philip C. Withers, Theodore A. Evans
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Subjects:	water loss respiratory metabolic rate continuous gas exchange discontinuous gas exchange cuticular permeability
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/9/632