The scent of food and defence: Green leaf volatiles and toluquinone as sex attractant mediate mate finding in the European cockchafer Melolontha melolontha

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-263

  Reinecke, Andreas ^a   Ruther, Joachim ^a   Hilker, Monika ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

GC EAD; Kairomone; Melolontha melolontha; Plant volatiles; Scarabaeidae; Sex pheromone

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; KAIROMONE; MATE LOCATION; PHEROMONE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY;

COLEOPTERA; MELOLONTHA MELOLONTHA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 0036129753     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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