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Title Advances in insect chemical ecology / edited by Ring T. Cardé and Jocelyn G. Millar
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Phytochemical diversity of insect defenses in tropical and temperate plant families / John T. Arnason, Gabriel Guillet and Tony Durst -- Recruitment of predators and parasitoids by herbivore-injured plants / Ted C.J. Turlings and Felix Wäckers -- Chemical ecology of astigmatid mites / Yasumasa Kuwahara -- Semiochemistry of spiders / Stefan Schulz -- Why do flowers smell? The chemical ecology of fragrance-driven pollination / Robert A. Raguso -- Sex pheromones of cockroaches / César Gemeno and Coby Schal -- A quest for alkaloids : the curious relationship between tiger moths and plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids / William E. Conner and Susan J. Weller -- Structure of the pheromone communication channel in moths / Ring T. Cardé and Kenneth F. Haynes
Summary Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology presents eight timely reviews of the latest research and thinking in the study of how insects use chemical signals to communicate with each other or to interact with other species
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Insects -- Ecophysiology
Animal chemical ecology.
Pheromones.
Chemoreceptors
Insecta -- physiology
Chemoreceptor Cells
Pheromones
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
Pheromones
Animal chemical ecology
Insects -- Ecophysiology
Insecten.
Chemische reacties.
Ecologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Cardé, Ring T
Millar, Jocelyn G., 1954-
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