Changes of species specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in the cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea and Leucophaea maderae reared in heterospecific groups

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-150

  Everaerts, Cl ^a   Farine, J P ^a   Brossut, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial heterospecific colonies; Chemical signature; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Dictyoptera; Interspecific recognition; Oxyhaloinae

Indexed keywords

BLATTARIA; DICTYOPTERA; LEUCOPHAEA MADERAE; NAUPHOETA CINEREA; OXYHALOINAE;

EID: 0030706143     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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