A hitchhiker's guide to a crowded syconium: How do fig nematodes find the right ride?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 741-749

  Krishnan, Anusha ^a   Muralidharan, Subhashini ^a   Sharma, Likhesh ^a   Borges, Renee M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Cuticular hydrocarbons; Host specificity; Phoresy; Plant animal interactions; Plant insect interactions; Tritrophic interactions; Volatiles

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOBILITY; MUTUALISM; NEMATODE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; ANIMALIA; FICUS RACEMOSA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; SCHISTONCHUS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 77956255445     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01696.x     Document Type: Article

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