A nonspecific defensive compound evolves into a competition avoidance cue and a female sex pheromone

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Weiss, Ingmar ^a   Rössler, Thomas ^a   Hofferberth, John ^b   Brummer, Michael ^a   Ruther, Joachim ^a   Stökl, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDOID; IRIDOMYRMECIN; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; ENTOMOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INSECT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATE ATTRACTION; SEMIOCHEMICAL; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL CUE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIELS ALDER REACTION; ENANTIOMER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEPTOPILINA HETEROTOMA; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; WASP;

HEXAPODA; LEPTOPILINA HETEROTOMA; VESPOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; WASPS;

EID: 84889600350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3767     Document Type: Article

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