... chemical defense chemical sense chemoreception neuroecology predation Antipredator defenses assume many forms. Most of them operate through one or more senses of the predators. One possible defensive mechanism is sensory inactivation, in which the predators' senses are impaired by the would...

... be reconstituted in a heterologous expression system to ultimately facilitate investigation of the molecular mechanism of such an aversive behavioral response. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) rejected artificial diets laced with sponge chemical defense compounds that were previously shown to deter a generalist marine...

... to be determined. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]) 7 11 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 chemical defense ink gland opaline gland gastropod sea hare escapin l -amino acid oxidase Sea hares, including species of the genus Aplysia , have...

... University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4010, USA (e-mail: [email protected]) * These authors contributed equally to this work 13 7 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 toxin chemical defense flavin gastropod inking Opisthobranchia Several proteins isolated from...

...). Electron Microscopy . Principles and Techniques for Biologists . Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publ . 542 pp. Brower , L. P. (1984). Chemical defence in butterflies . In The Biology of Butterflies (ed. R. I. Vane-Wright and P. R. Ackery ), pp. 109 – 134 . New York...

... defense predation alkaloid molting Oreophoetes peruana stick insect Insects of the order Phasmatodea, the so-called stick insects, comprise some 2500 species, mostly from the warmer parts of the world (Bedford, 1978 ; Key, 1991). Large and frequently apterous, phasmids are commonly slow...