Seaweed sex pheromones and their degradation products frequently suppress amphipod feeding but rarely suppress sea urchin feeding

Chemoecology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-98

  Hay, Mark E ^a   Piel, Jôrn ^b   Boland, Wilhelm ^b   Schnitzler, Iris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algal pheromones; Amphipods; Ampithoe longimana; Arbacia punctulata; Brown algae; C11 compounds; Dictyopteris; Marine ecology; Plant herbivore interactions; Sea urchins

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003142559     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00001809     Document Type: Article

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