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<p><p><b>insect Chemical Ecology</b> Provides A Comprehensive View Of How Natural Selection Acts Upon Interacting Organisms And How Particular Physical And Biological Properties Of Chemical Compounds Act As Constraints Upon Which Natural Selection May Act. Individual Chapters Raise Specific Questions As To The Nature Of These Interactions. <br> The First Part Contains Reviews On Antagonistic And Mutualistic Chemical Interactions, The 'raw Materials' Of Chemical Evolution, The Economics Of Offensive And Defensive Chemicals, And Neurobiology. <br> The Second Part Discusses Particular Problems Such As The Evolution Of Resistance, Insect Pollination, Learning, Pheromones, Sequestration Of Semiochemicals, The Role Of Microorganisms, Sex Attractants, The Evolution Of Host Races And Biotypes, And The Role Of Semiochemicals And The Evolution Of Sociality Of Insects. The Last Chapter Discusses The Role Of Chemical-based Pest Management Programs In An Ecological And Evolutionary Framework.</p>

Author

Bernard D. Roitberg & Murray B. Isman

Publisher

Chapman & Hall; Springer

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780412018817

Subjects

Science, Biology, Stem