Chemical ecology of insects : applications and associations with plants and microbes /
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Part A: Chemical ecology of insects and associated plants and microbes. 1. Plant secondary metabolites in host selection of butterfly / Hisashi Ômura ; 2. Function of the lepidopteran larval midgut in plant defense mechanisms / Naoko Yoshinaga and Naoki Mori ; 3. Chemically-mediated interactions between cucurbits, insects, and microbes / Lori R. Shapiro and Kerry E. Mauck ; 4. Chemoecology and behavior of parasitic nematode-host interactions : implications for management / Denis S. Willett, Xavier Martini, and Lukasz L. Stelinski ; 5. Microbial endosymbionts and chemical ecology / Daisuke Kageyama ; 6. Chemical ecology of yeasts associated with insects / Jun Tabata and Hiroko Kitamoto
- Part B: Applications of insect chemical ecology to agriculture, environment conservation, and public health. 7. Application of trail pheromones to management of pest ants / Eiriki Sunamura ; 8. Female sex pheromones and mating behavior in diurnal moths : implications for conservation biology / Hideshi Naka ; 9. Mating disruption : concepts and keys for effective application / Jun Tabata ; 10. Applied chemical ecology to enhance insect parasitoid efficacy in the biological control of crop pests / Ezio Peri, Rihem Moujahed, Eric Wajnberg, and Stefano Colazza ; 11. Challenges in chemical ecology for the management of vector-borne diseases of humans and livestock / Jun Tabata.