Are autumn foliage colors red signals to aphids?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1640-1644

  Chittka, Lars ^a   Döring, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHID; AUTUMN; COLOR VISION; FOLIAGE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTATION; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COLOR; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SEASON; TREE;

APHIDIDAE;

PIGMENT;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOLUTION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; TREES;

EID: 34548275967     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050187     Document Type: Review

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