Uptake and metabolism of [14C]rinderine and [14C]retronecine in leaf-beetles of the genus Platyphora and alkaloid accumulation in the exocrine defensive secretions

Chemoecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-62

  Pasteels, Jacques M ^a   Theuring, Claudine ^b   Windsor, Donald M ^c   Hartmann, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c Smithonian Trop Research Institute   (Panama)

Author keywords

Alkaloid sequestration; Chemical defense; Host plant selection; Platyphora leaf beetles; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APOCYNACEAE; ASTERACEAE; BORAGINACEAE; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CUSPIDATA; EUCOSMA; EUPATORIEAE; INSECTA; KOANOPHYLLON; PLATYPHORA; PLATYPHORA BELLA; PLATYPHORA BOUCARDI; PRESTONIA; PRESTONIA PORTOBELLENSIS; TOURNEFORTIA;

EID: 0037239273     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000490300006     Document Type: Article

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