Gelechiidae moths are capable of chemically dissolving the pollen of their host plants: First documented sporopollenin breakdown by an animal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Luo, Shixiao ^a   Li, Yongquan ^a   Chen, Shi ^a   Zhang, Dianxiang ^a   Renner, Susanne S ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT 1; DNA; ETHANOLAMINE; NATURAL PRODUCT; OCIMENE; SPOROPOLLENIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOPOLYMER; CAROTENOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; DELTOPHORA; DISSOLUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; HEMOLYMPH; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOTH; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLANTHUS; PHYLLANTHUS COCHINCHINENSIS; PHYLLANTHUS RHEOPHYTICUS; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT LEAF; POLLEN; POLLEN DISSOLUTION; POLLINATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STARVATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; GELECHIIDAE; GELECHIOIDEA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROLEPIDOPTERA; PHYLLANTHACEAE; PHYLLANTHUS (ANGIOSPERM);

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOPOLYMERS; CAROTENOIDS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MOTHS; PHYLLANTHUS; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955732433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019219     Document Type: Article

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