Chemical ecology of phytophagous scarab beetles

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 43, Issue , 1998, Pages 39-61

  Leal, Walter Soares ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggregation pheromone; Enantiomeric discrimination; Pheromone binding proteins; Pheromone biosynthesis; Sex pheromone

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031887065     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.43.1.39     Document Type: Review

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