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Host-plant selection by phytophagous insects
- Title
- Host-plant selection by phytophagous insects / by E.A. Bernays and R.F. Chapman.
- Author
- Bernays, E. A. (Elizabeth A.)
- Publication
- New York : Chapman & Hall, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QL496 .B46 1994 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Chapman, R. F. (Reginald Frederick)
- Description
- xiii, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary topics in entomology ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary topics in entomology ; 2.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Patterns of host-plant use. 1.1. Host-plant range. 1.2. Patterns of host-plant use. 1.3. Specialization on plant parts -- 2. Chemicals in plants. 2.1. The first chemicals detected: volatiles. 2.2. Surface waxes and other surface compounds. 2.3. Internal components: nutrients. 2.4. Internal components: secondary metabolites -- 3. Sensory systems -- 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. The sense of taste. 3.3. The sense of smell. 3.4. The sense of touch. 3.5. The sense of sight -- 4. Behavior: the process of host-plant selection. 4.1. Host finding. 4.2. Acceptance of the plant. 4.3. What happens in the field? -- 5. Behavior: the impact of ecology and physiology. 5.1. The hosts and the habitat. 5.2. Interactions with conspecifics and other organisms. 5.3. Abiotic factors. 5.4. Interacting behaviors. 5.5. Life history constraints. 5.6. Physiological state variables -- 6. Effects of experience. 6.1. Definitions. 6.2. Habituation. 6.3. Sensitization. 6.4. Associative learning or conditioning.
- 6.5. Food aversion learning. 6.6. Induction of preference. 6.7. Compulsive requirement for novelty -- 7. Genetic variation in host selection. 7.1. Within population differences. 7.2. Between population differences. 7.3. Possible mechanisms of behavioral variability -- 8. Evolution of host range. 8.1. Factors relating to scale. 8.2. Interactions among insects. 8.3. Plant chemistry. 8.4. Insect characteristics.
- ISBN
- 0412031116 (hb)
- 0412031310 (pb)
- LCCN
- 93025190
- OCLC
- 28254733
- ocm28254733
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries