The Rhode Island Hospital emergency department in Providence was built 10 years ago and is one of the busiest teaching hospital emergency departments in the country. Treating more than 100,000 adult patients a year and admitting almost 30 percent of them, the department has such a...
In addition to the high quality and content in protein, the chitin fraction of insects is considerably high in the adult stage, hindering nutrient utilization. In fact, insect meals are uniquely fabricated with larvae, given their low chitin and high protein contents, while adult insects are unut...
Such a mechanism can be found in the Donaciinae. The female deposits a small droplet of bacterial mass on one end of the egg during oviposition. The hatching larva inevitably ingests the bacteria and thereby infects itself [38]. Larvae of both sexes harbor the symbionts. In the adult ...