Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology

Klappentext Originally published in 2004, these eight reviews reveal how insects use chemical signals to communicate and interact ecologically. Zusammenfassung Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology presents eight 2004 reviews of the research and thinking in the study of how insects use chemical signals to communicate with each other or to interact with other species. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Phytochemical diversity of insect defenses in tropical and temperate plant families John T. Arason, Gabriel Guillet and Tony Durst; 2. Recruitment of predators and parasitoids by herbivore-injured plants Ted C. J. Turlings and Felix Wäckers; 3. Chemical ecology of astigmatid mites Yasumasa Kuwahara; 4. Semiochemistry of spiders Stefan Schulz; 5. Why do flowers smell? The chemical ecology of fragrance-driven pollination Robert A. Raguso; 6. Sex pheromones of cockroaches César Gemeno and Coby Schal; 7. A quest for alkaloids: curious relationship between tiger moths and plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids William E. Conner and Susan J. Weller; 8. Structure of the pheromone communication channel in moths Ring T. Cardé and Kenneth F. Haynes; Index.

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• Authors: Ring T. Millar Carde, CARDE RING T MILLAR JOCELYN G, Card¿Ring T.
• Assisted by: Ring T. Card (Editor), Ring T. Carde (Editor), Ring T. Cardé (Editor), Jocelyn G. Millar (Editor), Millar Jocelyn G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521188937
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18893-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, Zoology & animal sciences, Zoology and animal sciences