Medium molecular weight polar substances of the cuticle as tools in the study of the taxonomy, systematics and chemical ecology of tropical hover wasps (Hymenoptera: Stenogastrinae)

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-114

  Baracchi, David ^a   Dapporto, Leonardo ^b   Teseo, Serafino ^a   Hashim, Rosli ^c   Turillazzi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Istituto Comprensivo Materna Elementare Media Convenevole da Prato   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chemotaxonomy; Epicuticular profiling; MALDI TOF; Polar compounds

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CUTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYDROCARBON; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYLOGENY; WASP;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; STENOGASTRINAE;

EID: 77952927097     PISSN: 09475745     EISSN: 14390469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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