Volatile Emissions from an Epiphytic Fungus are Semiochemicals for Eusocial Wasps

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1056-1063

  Davis, Thomas Seth ^a   Boundy Mills, Kyria ^b   Landolt, Peter J ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT ATTRACTANTS; PHEROMONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; ODORS; PHEROMONES; SYMBIOSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASPS;

ARTHROPODA; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; FUNGI; HYMENOPTERA; PARAVESPULA GERMANICA; VESPULA; VESPULA GERMANICA; VESPULA PENSYLVANICA;

EID: 84867677362     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0074-2     Document Type: Article

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