Flowers as sensory billboards: Progress towards an integrated understanding of floral advertisement

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 434-440

  Raguso, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

dimethyl disulfide; DMDS; gas chromatography electroantennographic detection; GC EAD; QTL; quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; BAT; FEMALE; FLOWER; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; FLOWERS; MALE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; ORCHIDACEAE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; CALLIPHORIDAE; CHILOGLOTTIS; GLOSSOPHAGA; HELICODICEROS; ORCHIDACEAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 3042764553     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.05.010     Document Type: Review

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