Feeding preferences and host associations of specialist marine herbivores align with quantitative variation in seaweed secondary metabolites

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 396, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-12

  Baumgartner, Finn A ^a,c   Motti, Cherie A ^b   De Nys, Rocky ^a   Paul, Nicholas A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Caulerpa; Chemical cue; Coevolution; Congeneric variation; Dietary niche; Macroalgae; Opisthobranch; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COEVOLUTION; COEXISTENCE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HERBIVORE; MACROALGA; MOLLUSC; NICHE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEAWEED; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SPECIALIST;

ALGAE; CAULERPA; CAULERPA LENTILLIFERA; CAULERPA RACEMOSA; CAULERPA RACEMOSA VAR. LAETEVIRENS; CAULERPA SERRULATA; CAULERPA SERTULARIOIDES; CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA; MOLLUSCA; OXYNOE VIRIDIS; STILIGER;

EID: 73649131997     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08359     Document Type: Article

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