Insects had it first: Surfactants as a defence against predators

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1657, 2009, Pages 633-638

  Rostás, Michael ^a   Blassmann, Katrin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anti predator defence; Biosurfactants; Caterpillars; Regurgitation; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CATERPILLAR; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SECRETION; SURFACTANT;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

EID: 58249106782     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1281     Document Type: Article

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