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Insect hydrocarbons :
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : history and overview of insect hydrocarbons / Gary J. Blomquist and Anne-Geneviève Bagnères
- Structure and analysis of insect hydrocarbons / Gary J. Blomquist
- Biosynthesis of cuticular hydrocarbons / Gary J. Blomquist
- Molecular biology and genetics of hydrocarbon production / Claude Wicker-Thomas and Thomas Chertemps
- Site of synthesis, mechanism of transport and selective deposition of hydrocarbons / Anne-Geneviève Bagnères and Gary J. Blomquist
- Cuticular lipids and water balance / Allen G. Gibbs and Subhash Rajpurohit
- Chemical taxonomy with hydrocarbons / Anne-Geneviève Bagnères and Claude Wicker-Thomas
- Chemical synthesis of insect cuticular hydrocarbons / Jocelyn G. Millar
- Oxygenated derivatives of hydrocarbons / James S. Buckner
- Perception and olfaction of cuticular compounds / Mamiko Ozaki and Ayako Wada-Katsumata
- Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons / Jelle S. van Zweden and Patrizia d'Ettorre
- Cuticular hydrocarbon cues in the formation and maintenance of insect social groups / Michael Greene
- Hydrocarbon profiles indicate fertility and dominance status in ant, bee, and wasp colonies / Jürgen Liebig
- Chemical deception/mimicry using cuticular hydrocarbons / Anne-Geneviève Bagnères and M. Cristina Lorenzi
- Behavioral and evolutionary roles of cuticular hydrocarbons in Diptera / Jean-François Ferveur and Matthew Cobb
- Contact recognition pheromones in spiders and scorpions / Marie Trabalon and Anne-Geneviève Bagnères
- Hydrocarbons as contact pheromones of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) / Matthew D. Ginzel
- Polyene hydrocarbons, epoxides, and related compounds as components of lepidopteran pheromone blends / Jocelyn Millar
- Volatile hydrocarbon pheromones from beetles / Robert J. Bartelt
- Future directions in hydrocarbon research / Abraham Hefetz, Claude Wicker-Thomas and Anne-Geneviève Bagnères.