Host specificity and host recognition in a chemically-defended herbivore, the tenthredinid sawfly Rhadinoceraea nodicornis

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-68

  Barker, Alison ^a   Schaffner, Urs ^a   Boevé, Jean Luc ^b  

^a CABI   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolutionary radiation; Host recognition; Host specificity; Liliales; Phagostimulation; Phymatocerini; Sawfly; Sequestration; Steroid alkaloids

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; HERBIVORE; HOST SPECIFICITY; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LILIIFLORAE; MELANTHIACEAE; RANUNCULALES; RHADINOCERAEA; RHADINOCERAEA NODICORNIS; SYMPHYTA; TENTHREDINIDAE; VERATRUM; VERATRUM NIGRUM;

EID: 0036665098     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2002.00991.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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