Why does the larval integument of some sawfly species disrupt so easily? The harmful hemolymph hypothesis

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 104-111

  Boevé, Jean Luc ^a   Schaffner, Urs ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b CABI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anti predatory defense; Easy bleeding; Hemolymph deterrence; Host plant toxicity; Tenthredinidae

Indexed keywords

ANTIFEEDANT; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; DAMAGE; LARVA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; HEMOLYMPH; HYMENOPTERA; INTEGUMENT; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PREDATION; SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; EVOLUTION; HEMOLYMPH; HYMENOPTERA; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MYRMICA; MYRMICA RUBRA; TENTHREDINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037259136     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1092-4     Document Type: Article

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