Hitch-hiking parasitic wasp learns to exploit butterfly antiaphrodisiac

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 820-825

  Huigens, Martinus E ^a   Pashalidou, Foteini G ^a   Qian, Ming Hui ^b   Bukovinszky, Tibor ^a   Smid, Hans M ^a   Van Loon, Joop J A ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a   Fatouros, Nina E ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GUANGDONG ACADEMY OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Egg parasitoid; Memory; Phoresy; Pieris; Trichogramma

Indexed keywords

BENZYL CYANIDE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PARASITOID; FEMALE; HOST; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REINFORCEMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRICHOGRAMMA EVANESCENS; WASP;

ACETONITRILES; ANIMALS; APHRODISIACS; BRASSICA; BUTTERFLIES; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; WASPS;

HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIS (BUTTERFLY); PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA BRASSICAE; TRICHOGRAMMA EVANESCENS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 58849093306     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812277106     Document Type: Article

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