Ring T. Cardé / Jocelyn G. Millar (eds.)

Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology

Herausgeber: Carde, Ring T.; Millar, Jocelyn G.; Millar, Jocelyn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eight 2004 reviews of how insects use chemical signals to communicate and interact ecologically.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780521792752
• ISBN-10: 0521792754
• Artikelnr.: 22057800

Autorenporträt

Professor Ring T. Cardé is based in the Department of Entomology in the University of California, Riverside.
Professor Jocelyn G. Millar is also in the Department of Entomology in UC Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

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.