High individual variation in pheromone production by tree-killing bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-44

  Pureswaran, Deepa S ^a,c   Sullivan, Brian T ^b   Ayres, Matthew P ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation behaviour; Dendroctonus; Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection; Group selection; Individual variation; Mutation selection balance; Pheromones

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BARK; BEETLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GROUP SELECTION; GROUP SIZE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; MUTATION; PHEROMONE; SIGNALING;

AERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COLEOPTERA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLUME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MONOTERPENES; PHEROMONES; PLANT DISEASES; SELECTION (GENETICS); TREES; UNITED STATES; WEEVILS;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 36649024979     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0292-5     Document Type: Article

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