Associative learning of complex odours in parasitoid host location

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 231-236

  Meiners, Torsten ^a,c,d   Wäckers, Felix ^b   Lewis, Wallace Joe ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d Angewandte Zoologie/Oekol der Tiere   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background odour; Complex blends; Insect learning; Mixture recognition; Plant volatiles

Indexed keywords

CARYOPHYLLENE; JASMONIC ACID; 2 OCTANONE; 2-OCTANONE; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; KETONE; SESQUITERPENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HOST; HYMENOPTERA; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PARASITOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG EFFECT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MALE; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MICROPLITIS CROCEIPES;

ACETIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CYCLOPENTANES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HYMENOPTERA; KETONES; LARVA; MALE; MOTHS; ODORS; SESQUITERPENES; SMELL;

EID: 4344588774     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.3.231     Document Type: Article

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