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Beyond Human Nutrition of Edible Insects: Health Benefits and Safety Aspects
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary Edible insects are a promising alternative food source due to their high nutritional composition and sustainable production. The nutritional value of edible insects is equal or greater than conventional protein sources.
J. E. Aguilar-Toalá +2 more
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Edible Insects as Food–Insect Welfare and Ethical Aspects from a Consumer Perspective
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary For prevalent livestock, animal welfare is important to consumers. With increasing interest in edible insects, one might wonder how this concern translates to consumers’ perceptions of the welfare of insects.
Nora Delvendahl, B. Rumpold, N. Langen
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The Effect of Substrate on the Nutrient Content and Fatty Acid Composition of Edible Insects
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary The search of new sustainably produced protein sources for food and feed is vigorously under investigation. One promising possibility is to increase the use of edible insects as a part of our diet.
Kati Riekkinen +2 more
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Foods, 2021 Edible insects have been considered as either nutritious food itemsper se, or as wholesome ingredients to various dishes and components of traditional subsistence.
V. Meyer-Rochow +3 more
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Sterilizing Insects with Ionizing Radiation
Sterile Insect Technique, 2021 Exposure to ionizing radiation is currently the method of choice for rendering insects reproductively sterile for area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes that integrate the sterile insect technique (SIT).
A. Bakri, K. Mehta, D. Lance
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Insects and recent climate change
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Insects have diversified through more than 450 million y of Earth’s changeable climate, yet rapidly shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation now pose novel challenges as they combine with decades of other anthropogenic stressors including the ...
C. A. Halsch +6 more
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Regulatory Mechanisms of Vitellogenesis in Insects
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 Vitellogenesis is pre-requisite to insect egg production and embryonic development after oviposition. During insect vitellogenesis, the yolk protein precursor vitellogenin (Vg) is mainly synthesized in the fat body, transported by the hemolymph through ...
Zhongxia Wu +3 more
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How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?
Annual Review of Entomology, 2018 In the last decade, new methods of estimating global species richness have been developed and existing ones improved through the use of more appropriate statistical tools and new data.
N. Stork
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How many people on our planet eat insects: 2 billion?
Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, 2022 The estimated figure of two billion people consuming insects mentioned in the 2013 FAO/WUR report about edible insects has been cited many times over. This editorial asks four questions to determine the accuracy of the estimated figure: how to define an ‘
A. van Huis +4 more
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Insects in 2014
Insects, 2015 The editors of Insects would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]
Insects Editorial Office
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