Chemical composition of leaf volatiles in Macaranga species (Euphorbiaceae) and their potential role as olfactory cues in host-localization of foundress queens of specific ant partners

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-113

  Jürgens, Andreas ^a,c   Feldhaar, Heike ^b   Feldmeyer, Barbara ^b   Fiala, Brigitte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ant plant symbiosis; GC MS; Host choice experiments; Host finding; Leaf volatiles; Macaranga; MicroSPE; Myrmecophytes

Indexed keywords

ANT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HOST LOCATION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LEAF; OLFACTORY CUE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; MACARANGA;

EID: 30944438236     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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