Making scents of defense: Do fecal shields and herbivore-caused volatiles match host plant chemical profiles?

Chemoecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Keefover Ring, Ken ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aromatic plants; Herbivore caused volatiles; Larval fecal shields; Monarda fistulosa; Physonota unipunctata; Terpenoids

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; LAMIACEAE; MONARDA; MONARDA FISTULOSA; PHYSONOTA;

EID: 84873745642     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-012-0117-7     Document Type: Article

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