Aspects of insect chemical ecology: Exploitation of reception and detection as tools for deception of pests and beneficial insects

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-9

  Pickett, John A ^a   Aradottir, Gudbjorg I ^a   Birkett, Michael A ^a   Bruce, Toby J A ^a   Chamberlain, Keith ^a   Khan, Zeyaur R ^b   Midega, Charles A O ^b   Smart, Lesley E ^a   Woodcock, Christine M ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Animal insect interactions; Behaviour; Chemical ecology; Electrophysiology; GM; GMO; Insects; Mixture recognition; Olfaction; Plant insect interactions; Semiochemicals; Small lipophilic molecules

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTAGONISM; ATTRACTANT; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CHEMORECEPTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST LOCATION; OLFACTION; PARASITOID; PEST CONTROL; PEST SPECIES; PHEROMONE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; REPELLENT; SEMIOCHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84857433024     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2011.00828.x     Document Type: Review

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