Cycads: Their evolution, toxins, herbivores and insect pollinators

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 281-294

  Schneider, Dietrich ^a   Wink, Michael ^b   Sporer, Frank ^b   Lounibos, Philip ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AZO COMPOUND; GLUCOSIDE; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL GLUCOSIDE; NEUROTOXIN; PLANT TOXIN;

EVOLUTION; GYMNOSPERM; HERBIVORE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATOR;

ANGIOSPERM; EVOLUTION; GYMNOSPERM; HERBIVORY; HIGHER PLANT; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; INSECTS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POLLEN;

COLEOPTERA; CYCADOPSIDA; CYCAS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MYA; RHOPALOTRIA; ZAMIA; ZAMIA FURFURACEA; ZAMIA PUMILA;

EID: 0036316022     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0330-2     Document Type: Review

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