Interacting control systems and metabolic stimuli influence insect gas exchange patterns

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica C. Heinrich
Keyword(s):  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Exchange Patterns

scholarly journals Gas exchange patterns and water loss rates in the Table Mountain cockroach, Aptera fusca (Blattodea: Blaberidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 216 (20) ◽  
pp. 3844-3853 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Groenewald ◽  
C. S. Bazelet ◽  
C. P. Potter ◽  
J. S. Terblanche
Keyword(s):  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Table Mountain ◽  
Exchange Patterns ◽  
Loss Rates

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

Insects ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 632
Author(s):  
Waseem Abbas ◽  
Philip C. Withers ◽  
Theodore A. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Evaporative Water ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Darkling Beetle ◽  
Terrestrial Insects ◽  
Exchange Patterns ◽  
Respiratory Cost

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). We measured this cost in terms of respiratory water loss relative to metabolic rate (respiratory water cost of gas exchange; RWL/V˙CO2) for adults of two insect species, the speckled cockroach (Nauphoeta cinerea) and the darkling beetle (Zophobas morio), which are similar in their mode of gas exchange (dominantly convective), habitat (mesic), body size and measurement conditions, by measuring gas exchange patterns using flow-through respirometry. The speckled cockroaches showed both continuous and discontinuous gas exchange patterns, which had significantly a different metabolic rate and respiratory water loss but the same respiratory water cost of gas exchange. The darkling beetles showed continuous gas exchange pattern only, and their metabolic rate, respiratory water loss and respiratory cost of gas exchange were equivalent to those cockroaches using continuous gas exchange. This outcome from our study highlights that the respiratory water cost of gas exchange is similar between species, regardless of gas exchange pattern used, when the confounding factors affecting this cost are controlled. However, the total evaporative water cost of gas exchange is much higher than the respiratory cost because cuticular water loss contributes considerably more to the overall evaporative water loss than respiratory water. We suggest that the total water cost of gas exchange is likely to be a more useful index of environmental adaptation (e.g., aridity) than just the respiratory water cost.

Gas exchange patterns of Pterostichus niger (Carabidae) in dry and moist air

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
IRJA KIVIMÄGI ◽  
AARE KUUSIK ◽  
KATRIN JÕGAR ◽  
ANGELA PLOOMI ◽  
INGRID H. WILLIAMS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Moist Air ◽  
Exchange Patterns
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