Foreign-language skills in rove-beetles? Evidence for chemical mimicry of ant alarm pheromones in myrmecophilous Pella beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1382-1392

  Stoeffler, Michael ^a   Maier, Tanja S ^a   Tolasch, Till ^a   Steidle, Johannes L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

6 methyl 5 hepten 2 one; Aggressive alarm; Alarm pheromones; Chemical mimicry; Lasius fuliginosus; Myrmecophily; Panic alarm; Pella; Sulcatone; Zyras

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

AGGRESSION; ALARM SIGNAL; ANT; BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBON; KETONE; MIMICRY; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEETLES; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHEROMONES;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; LASIUS FULIGINOSUS; STAPHYLINIDAE; ZYRAS;

EID: 34347399660     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-007-9315-0     Document Type: Article

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