Insects betray themselves in nature to predators by rapid isomerization of green leaf volatiles

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5995, 2010, Pages 1075-1078

  Allmann, Silke ^a,b   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN LEAF VOLATILE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; GENERALIST; HOST PLANT; INSECT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SECRETION; TOBACCO; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WOUNDING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOCORIS; HEMIPTERA; HERBIVORY; ISOMER; ISOMERIZATION; MANDUCA SEXTA; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO;

ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; HETEROPTERA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOMERISM; MANDUCA; MOUTH; ODORS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE; TOBACCO; VOLATILIZATION;

GEOCORIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA VIRUS; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA;

EID: 77956128424     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191634     Document Type: Article

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