Specialist deterrent chemoreceptors enable Pieris caterpillars to discriminate between chemically different deterrents

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-35

  Van Loon, Joop J A ^a   Schoonhoven, Louis M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brassicaceae; Cardenolides; Chemoreception; Deterrents; Evolution; Host plant selection; Pieris

Indexed keywords

CHEMORECEPTION; FEEDING DETERRENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICACEAE; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS; PIERIS BRASSICAE;

EID: 0032866567     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00463.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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