Trichomes as dangerous lollipops: Do lizards also use caterpillar body and frass odor to optimize their foraging?

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1893-1896

  Stork, William F J ^b   Weinhold, Alexander ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body odor; Frass odor; Lizards; Manduca quinquemaculata; Manduca sexta; Nicotiana attenuata; O acyl sugars

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HERBIVORY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIZARD; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; TOBACCO;

ANIMALS; FATTY ACIDS; HERBIVORY; LARVA; LIZARDS; MANDUCA; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TOBACCO;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA QUINQUEMACULATA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84856644419     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.12.18028     Document Type: Article

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