Volatile chemical release by bethylid wasps: Identity, phylogeny, anatomy and behaviour

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 837-852

  Goubault, Marlène ^a,d   Batchelor, Tim P ^a,e   Romani, Roberto ^b   Linforth, Robert S T ^a   Fritzsche, Matthias ^c   Francke, Wittko ^c   Hardy, Ian C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contest behaviour; Mandibular gland; Mass spectrometry; Parasitoid; Skatole; Spiroacetal

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANATOMY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITOID; PHYLOGENY; SECRETION; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WASP;

BETHYLIDAE; GONIOZUS NEPHANTIDIS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 48249085326     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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