Pollinator attraction to volatiles from virgin and pollinated host flowers in a yucca/moth obligate mutualism

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Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1577-1583

  Svensson, Glenn P ^a   Pellmyr, Olle ^b   Raguso, Robert A ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CHEMICAL CUE; ENCOUNTER RATE; FLOWER VISITING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST PLANT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOTH; MUTUALISM; OLFACTORY CUE; PHEROMONE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SCENT MARKING; VOLATILE ELEMENT;

LEPIDOPTERA; PRODOXIDAE; TEGETICULA YUCCASELLA; YUCCA; YUCCA ELATA; YUCCA FILAMENTOSA; YUCCA GLAUCA;

EID: 80053052748     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19258.x     Document Type: Article

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