The Defensive Secretion of Carabus lefebvrei Dejean 1826 Pupa (Coleoptera, Carabidae): Gland Ultrastructure and Chemical Identification

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 351-361

  Giglio, Anita ^a   Brandmayr, Pietro ^a   Dalpozzo, Renato ^a   Sindona, Giovanni ^a   Tagarelli, Antonio ^a   Talarico, Federica ^a   Brandmayr, Tullia Zetto ^a   Ferrero, Enrico A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal glands; Chemical defense; Monoterpenes; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ESTERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRANULATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONOTERPENES; PHYSIOLOGY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ABDOMINAL GLAND; CARABIDAE; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION; COLEOPTERA; GLAND SECRETIONS; MITOCHONDRIAS; SECRETORY GRANULES; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS;

KETONES;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; GLYCOGEN; KETONE DERIVATIVE; LINALOOL; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CARABUS LEFEBVREI; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GOLGI COMPLEX; INSECT; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECRETORY CELL; STOMACH GLAND; STOMACH SECRETION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; SECRETION;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PUPA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 65649121218     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20660     Document Type: Article

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