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Chemical Ecology : From Gene to Ecosystem

By: Marcel Dicke (Editor), Willem Takken (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2005

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Chemical cues are used to communicate, but can also be exploited in espionage or eavesdropping. To understand the ecology of chemical signalling in communities one needs to carry out manipulative experiments. Such experiments have been done throughout the last century. However, in recent years the degree of precision with which such experiments can be done has grown tremendously as a result of rapidly increasing knowledge at the molecular-genetic level. This opens exciting new avenues to chemical ecologists. The connection of molecular genetics to community ecology and ecosystem ecology provides novel tools to take up old questions that were often hard to answer. This book provides an overview of chemical ecology related to different ecosystems and an outlook at novel directions that can be taken in chemical ecology through a molecular-ecological or eco-genomic approach. The book addresses above- and belowground terrestrial systems as well as aquatic systems, and the organisms involved are micro- and macro-organisms, such as plants, arthropods and mammals. The scientific approach presented in this book is characteristic of modern biological research.

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Non-Fiction Science Biology, Life Sciences Biochemistry Engineering & Technology Environmental Science Chemistry Botany & Plant Sciences Life Sciences in General Ecological Science Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology

Physical Anthropology Zoology & Animal Sciences Animal Ecology

Chemical ecology : a multidisciplinary approach	p. 1
Chemical communication : five major challenges in the postgenomic age	p. 9
Plant-insect interactions in the era of consolidation in biological sciences : Nicotiana attenuata as an ecological expression system	p. 19
The effect of host-root-derived chemical signals on the germination of parasitic plants	p. 39
Chemical signalling between plants : mechanistic similarities between phytotoxic allelopathy and host recognition by parasitic plants	p. 55
The chemosensory system of Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes	p. 71
Variation in learning of herbivory-induced plant odours by parasitic wasps : from brain to behaviour	p. 89
Visualizing a fly's nose : genetic and physiological techniques for studying odour coding in drosophila	p. 105
Chemical communication between roots and shoots : towards an integration of aboveground and belowground induced responses in plants	p. 127
Food-web interactions in lakes : what is the impact of chemical information conveyance?	p. 145
Plant volatiles yielding new ways to exploit plant defence	p. 161
Chemical ecology from genes to communities : integrating 'omics' with community ecology	p. 175
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