Caterpillar Chemical Defense and Parasitoid Success: Cotesia congregata Parasitism of Ceratomia catalpae

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 992-998

  Lampert, Evan C ^a,c   Dyer, Lee A ^b   Bowers, M Deane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Catalpa; Catalpa sphinx; Catalpol; Endoparasitoid; Hymenoptera; Iridoid glycosides; Lepidoptera; Nasty host hypothesis; Sequestration; Sphingidae

Indexed keywords

CATALPOL; IRIDOID;

CATERPILLAR; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; ENDOPARASITE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITOID; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIGNONIACEAE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ANIMALS; BIGNONIACEAE; FEMALE; HYMENOPTERA; IRIDOID GLUCOSIDES; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; PLANT LEAVES;

BRACONIDAE; CATALPA; CERATOMIA CATALPAE; COTESIA CONGREGATA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; SPHINGIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956877416     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-010-9840-0     Document Type: Article

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