The multiple strategies of an insect herbivore to overcome plant cyanogenic glucoside defence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Pentzold, Stefan ^a   Zagrobelny, Mika ^a   Roelsgaard, Pernille Sølvhøj ^a   Møller, Birger Lindberg ^a   Bak, Søren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CYANOGENIC GLYCOSIDE; GLUCOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELLULASE; CYANIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOGENESIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINE; LOTUS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; SALIVA; ZYGAENA FILIPENDULAE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; HERBIVORY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOTH; PLANT; PLANT LEAF;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELLULASES; CYANIDES; GLUCOSIDES; HERBIVORY; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINES; LARVA; MOTHS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; SALIVA;

EID: 84898758143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091337     Document Type: Article

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