Volatile emission by contest losers revealed by real-time chemical analysis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1603, 2006, Pages 2853-2859

  Goubault, Marlène ^a   Batchelor, Tim P ^a   Linforth, Robert S T ^a   Taylor, Andrew J ^a   Hardy, Ian C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical manipulation; Contest behaviour; Loser emission; Real time mass spectrometry; Spiroacetal

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 1,7 DIOXASPIRO[5.5]UNDECANE; DECANE; DEUTERIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTEST COMPETITION; DEUTERIUM; FEMALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING; PARASITOID; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WASP;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASP;

ANIMALIA; GONIOZUS LEGNERI;

EID: 33751103686     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3655     Document Type: Article

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