Gall volatiles defend aphids against a browsing mammal
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Ecology and Evolution
- Vol. 13 (1) , 193
Abstract
Plants have evolved an astonishing array of survival strategies. To defend against insects, for example, damaged plants emit volatile organic compounds that attract the herbivore’s natural enemies. So far, plant volatile responses have been studied extensively in conjunction with leaf chewing and sap sucking insects, yet little is known about the relationship between plant volatiles and gall-inducers, the most sophisticated herbivores. Here we describe a new role for volatiles as gall-insects were found to benefit from this plant defence.Keywords
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