The use of the tergal gland defensive secretion in male intrasexual aggression of the rove beetle, Aleochara curtula (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), measured by closed-loop-stripping-analyses and tandem bioassay - Mass fragmentography

Chemoecology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 24-33

  Peschke, Klaus ^a   Friedrich, Peter ^a   Gantert, Cornelia ^a   Metzler, Manfred ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 methyl 1,4 benzoquinone; Aleochara curtula; Closed loop stripping analyses; Coleoptera; Defensive secretion; Male aggression; Mass fragmentography; Staphylinidae; Tandem bioassay; Tergal gland

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006497768     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01240634     Document Type: Article

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