Cuticular hydrocarbons of grasshoppers from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 579-588

  Chapman, Reginald F ^a   Espelie, Karl E ^b   Peck, Stewart B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cuticular hydrocarbons; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Galapagos Islands; Grasshopper; Halmenus; Schistocerca

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; HYDROCARBON; SQUALENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECUADOR; GRASSHOPPER; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

HALMENUS ROBUSTUS; SCHISTOCERCA LITEROSA; SCHISTOCERCA MELANOCERA;

EID: 0034035872     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-1978(99)00094-0     Document Type: Article

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