Stoichiometric estimates of the biochemical conversion efficiencies in tsetse metabolism.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The time varying flows of biomass and energy in tsetse (Glossina) can be examined through the construction of a dynamic mass-energy budget specific to these flies but such a budget depends on efficiencies of metabolic conversion which are unknown. These efficiencies of conversion determine the overall yields when food or storage tissue is converted into body tissue or into metabolic energy. A biochemical approach to the estimation of these efficiencies uses stoichiometry and a simplified description of tsetse metabolism to derive estimates of the yields, for a given amount of each substrate, of conversion product, by-products, and exchanged gases. This biochemical approach improves on estimates obtained through calorimetry because the stoichiometric calculations explicit

SUBMITTER: Custer AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1215481 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature