Two Genera of Aulacoscelinae Beetles Reflexively Bleed Azoxyglycosides Found in Their Host Cycads

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 736-740

  Prado, Alberto ^a   Ledezma, Julieta ^b   Cubilla Rios, Luis ^c   Bede, Jacqueline C ^a   Windsor, Donald M ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Aulacoscelinae; Aulacoscelis; Azoxyglycosides; Chrysomelidae; Coleoptera; Dioon; Janbechynea; Reflex bleeding; Zamia; Zamiaceae

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL GLUCOSIDE; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL PRIMEVEROSIDE;

BEETLE; BLOOD; CONIFEROUS TREE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYLOGENETICS; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SECRETION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BOLIVIA; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEXICO; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PANAMA; PLANT LEAF; SECRETIONS; ZAMIACEAE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODILY SECRETIONS; BOLIVIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYCASIN; FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE; MEXICO; PANAMA; PLANT LEAVES; ZAMIACEAE;

BOLIVIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

AULACOSCELINAE; AULACOSCELIS; AULACOSCELIS APPENDICULATA; AULACOSCELIS VOGTI; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CYCADOPHYTA; CYCADOPSIDA; DIOON; DIOON EDULE; JANBECHYNEA; ZAMIA; ZAMIA BOLIVIANA; ZAMIACEAE;

EID: 79959644781     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-011-9977-5     Document Type: Article

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