tailieunhanh - ADVANCES IN INSECT CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

In contrast to other animals, humans sense their world chiefly by vision, sound, and touch. We have, in general, a remarkably undeveloped sense of smell, and so it is not surprising that we fail to appreciate how important chemical signals are in the lives of other organisms. Chemical signals and cues serve insects in numerous ways, including sexual advertisement, social organization, defense, and finding and recognizing resources. Chemical ecology seeks to identify these chemicals and to establish how they affect an organism’s behavior, physiology, and interactions with other organisms. As the techniques to identify fully the structures of natural products have become increasingly sophisticated and powerful, the amounts. | Advances in insect Chemical Ecology Edited by Ring T. Cardé and Jocelyn G. Millar Cambridge CumitM I w 9780521792752 This page intentionally left blank ADVANCES IN INSECT CHEMICAL ECOLOGY Chemical signals mediate all aspects of insects lives and their ecological interactions. The discipline of chemical ecology seeks to unravel these interactions by identifying and defining the chemicals involved and by documenting how perception of these chemical mediators modifies behavior and ultimately reproductive success. Chapters in this volume consider how plants use chemicals to defend themselves from insect herbivores the complexity of floral odors that mediate insect pollination tritrophic interactions of plants herbivores and parasitoids and the chemical cues that parasitoids use to find their herbivore hosts the semiochemically mediated behaviors of mites pheromone communication in spiders and cockroaches the ecological dependence of tiger moths on the chemistry of their host plants and the selective forces that shape the pheromone communication channel of moths. Each review is written by an internationally recognized expert and presents descriptions of the chemicals involved the effects of semiochemically mediated interactions on reproductive success and the evolutionary pathways that have shaped the chemical ecology of arthropods. Professors Ring Carde and Jocelyn Millar are both based in the University of California at Riverside. Between them they have written over 300 articles on chemical ecology and have co-edited six .

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• Phytochemical diversity
• insect defenses
• temperate plant families
• Recruitment
• predators
• parasitoids
• herbivore injured plants