A cuckoo in wolves' clothing? Chemical mimicry in a specialized cuckoo wasp of the European beewolf (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae and Crabronidae)

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Strohm, Erhard ^a,b   Kroiss, Johannes ^a,b   Herzner, Gudrun ^a,b   Laurien Kehnen, Claudia ^c,d   Boland, Wilhelm ^e   Schreier, Peter ^b   Schmitt, Thomas ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; CANIDAE; CERCERIS ARENARIA; CHRYSIDIDAE; CHRYSIS VIRIDULA; CRABRONIDAE; HEDYCHRUM; HEDYCHRUM RUTILANS; HYMENOPTERA; PHILANTHUS TRIANGULUM;

EID: 40249107665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-5-2     Document Type: Article

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