Dietary influences on terpenoids sequestered by the biological control agent Oxyops vitiosa: Effect of plant volatiles from different Melaleuca quinquenervia chemotypes and laboratory host species

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 189-208

  Wheeler, G S ^a   Massey, L M ^b   Southwell, I A ^c  

^a INVASIVE PLANT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

Author keywords

caryophyllene; Antipredator defense; Biological control of weeds; Curculionidae; Formicidae; Melaleuca quinquenervia; Myrica cerifera; Myricaceae Oxyops vitiosa; Myrtaceae; Plant defensive compounds; Red imported fire ant; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

CARYOPHYLLENE; NEROLIDOL; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENOID; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; DIET; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY);

ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DIET; HERBIVORY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; LABORATORY; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROTECTION; WEED;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; MELALEUCA; PEST CONTROL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, EDIBLE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MELALEUCA; MELALEUCA QUINQUENERVIA; MORELLA CERIFERA; MYRICA; MYRICACEAE; MYRTACEAE; OXYOPS VITIOSA; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0037264497     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021941000399     Document Type: Article

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