Gut microbes may facilitate insect herbivory of chemically defended plants

Oecologia

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-14

  Hammer, Tobin J ^a,b   Bowers, M Deane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Detoxification; Diversification; Microbiome; Secondary metabolites; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALLELOCHEMICAL; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COEVOLUTION; DETOXIFICATION; DIET; DIVERSITY INDEX; HERBIVORY; INSECT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SYMBIOSIS; TOXIN; TROPHIC LEVEL;

HEXAPODA;

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HERBIVORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HERBIVORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; MICROBIOTA; PHEROMONES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS;

EID: 84940722405     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3327-1     Document Type: Article

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