Host recognition by the tobacco hornworm is mediated by a host plant compound

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6834, 2001, Pages 186-189

  Del Campo, Marta L ^a,b   Miles, Carol I ^a,b   Schroe, Frank C ^a   Mueller, Caroline ^c   Booker, Ronald ^a   Renwick, J Alan ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; NUTRITION; ODORS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

TASTE RECEPTORS;

PHYSIOLOGY;

GLYCOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE BUD; TOBACCO; WORM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CELL EXTRACTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCES; GLYCOSIDES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARVA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MANDUCA; PLANT LEAVES; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARVATION; STEROIDS;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEMATODA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0035837401     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075559     Document Type: Article

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