The Chemistry of Sexual Deception in an Orchid-Wasp Pollination System

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5644, 2003, Pages 437-438

  Schiestl, Florian P ^a,c   Peakall, Rod ^a   Mant, Jim G ^a,c   Ibarra, Fernando ^b   Schulz, Claudia ^b   Franke, Stephan ^b   Francke, Wittko ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONES; NATURAL SCIENCES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

POLLINATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

2 ETHYL 5 PROPYLCYCLOHEXAN 1,3 DIONE; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COPULATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORCHIDACEAE; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WASP;

ANIMALS; CYCLOHEXANONES; FEMALE; FLOWERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ODORS; ORCHIDACEAE; POLLEN; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; CHILOGLOTTIS; CHILOGLOTTIS TRAPEZIFORMIS; NEOZELEBORIA; NEOZELEBORIA CRYPTOIDES; ORCHIDACEAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0142020920     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1087835     Document Type: Article

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