Table 1. The compositions of amino acid (%) in foliage, the bodies and feces of the day 1 third- and fourth-instar larvae.

		The third-instar larvae		The fourth-instar larvae
Foliage		Bodies	Feces	Bodies	Feces
A	8.70 ± 0.41 a	7.75 ± 0.43 a	8.58 ± 0.52 a	7.60 ± 0.37 ab	6.45 ± 0.54 b
R	4.89 ± 0.27 a	4.42 ± 0.33 a	4.44 ± 0.35 a	4.50 ± 0.29 a	3.34 ± 0.26 b
D	1.23 ± 0.11 a	0.91 ± 0.05 a	0.95 ± 0.07 a	0.92 ± 0.08 a	0.71 ± 0.06 a
N	9.79 ± 0.81 a	7.47 ± 0.54 b	8.58 ± 0.43 a	8.25 ± 0.74 ab	10.81 ± 1.12 a
C	0.25 ± 0.02 b	1.36 ± 0.12 a	0.08 ± 0.00 c	0.88 ± 0.07 ab	0.06 ± 0.00 c
E	0.96±0.10 ab	1.38 ± 0.11 a	1.06 ± 0.13 a	1.34 ± 0.12 a	0.80 ± 0.09 b
Q	9.73 ± 0.85 a	12.33 ± 1.02 a	9.72 ± 0.81 a	11.65 ± 1.12 a	12.79 ± 1.23 a
G	9.62 ± 0.81 c	9.04 ± 0.75 c	18.07 ± 1.52 b	9.16 ± 1.04 c	24.60 ± 2.33 a
H	1.92 ± 0.15 b	2.56 ± 0.14 a	1.58 ± 0.12 b	2.74 ± 0.16 a	1.19 ± 0.09 c
I	4.71 ± 0.22 a	5.09 ± 0.23 a	5.22 ± 0.36 a	5.04 ± 0.42 a	3.92 ± 0.28 b
L	8.87 ± 0.52 a	7.17 ± 0.48 a	6.88 ± 0.54 ab	8.35 ± 0.57 a	5.94 ± 0.34 b
K	6.49 ± 0.33 a	7.62 ± 0.35 a	2.81 ± 0.23 b	7.52 ± 0.48 a	2.93 ± 0.23 b
M	1.35 ± 0.12 a	0.21 ± 0.01 b	0.01±0.00 c	0.20 ± 0.03 b	0.03 ± 0.00 c
F	4.22 ± 0.34 a	3.38 ± 0.30 ab	3.91 ± 0.20 a	3.37 ± 0.18 ab	2.94 ± 0.18 b
P	6.42 ± 0.53 a	6.26 ± 0.50 a	7.39 ± 0.64 a	5.63 ± 0.59 a	5.56 ± 0.53 a
S	5.59 ± 0.34 a	6.81 ± 0.42 a	4.49 ± 0.35 b	6.79 ± 0.32 a	4.15 ± 0.27 b
T	5.32 ± 0.34 bc	4.65 ± 0.42 c	8.31 ± 0.72 a	4.62 ± 0.38 c	6.26 ± 0.46 b
Y	3.07 ± 0.22 a	3.19 ± 0.17 a	2.61 ± 0.14 b	3.23 ± 0.21 a	1.96 ± 0.15 c
V	6.79 ± 0.37 b	8.31 ± 0.42 a	5.22 ± 0.25 c	8.12 ± 0.45 a	5.45 ± 0.30 c

Note: A, alanine; R, arginine; D, aspartic acid; N, asparagine; C, cysteine; E, glutamate; Q, glutamine; G, glycine; H, histidine; I, isoleucine; L, leucine; K, lysine; M, methionine; F, phenylalanine; P, proline; S, serine; T, threonine; Y, tyrosine; V, valine. Data within each line are subjected to arc-sine transformation and analyzed by ANOVAs followed by the Tukey-Kramer test. Different letters indicate significant difference at P value < 0.05.