GABA, β-Alanine and Glycine in the Digestive Juice of Privet-Specialist Insects: Convergent Adaptive Traits Against Plant Iridoids

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 983-991

  Konno, Kotaro ^a   Hirayama, Chikara ^a   Yasui, Hiroe ^a   Okada, Sachiko ^a   Sugimura, Masahiro ^a   Yukuhiro, Fumiko ^a   Tamura, Yasumori ^a   Hattori, Makoto ^a   Shinbo, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamura, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Anti nutritive; Coevolution; Cost of adaptation; Digestive juice; Essential amino acid; Glycine; Iridoid glycosides; Lysine; Plant defense; Plant herbivore interactions; Role of GABA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINE; AMINO ACID; BETA ALANINE; GLYCINE; INSECT PROTEIN; IRIDOID; LYSINE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID; BUTTERFLY; CATERPILLAR; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COEVOLUTION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DICOTYLEDON; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIGUSTRUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH JUICE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BETA-ALANINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GASTRIC JUICE; GLYCINE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT PROTEINS; IRIDOIDS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIGUSTRUM; LYSINE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA; ARTOPOETES PRYERI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LIGUSTRUM; LIGUSTRUM OBTUSIFOLIUM; LYCAENIDAE; OLEACEAE;

EID: 77956870621     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-010-9842-y     Document Type: Article

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