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Chemical Ecology of Insects (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Chemical Ecology of Insects (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Our objective in compiling a series of chapters on the chemical
ecology of insects has been to delineate the major concepts of this
discipline. The fine line between presenting a few topics in great
detail or many topics in veneer has been carefully drawn, such that
the book contains sufficient diversity to cover the field and a few
topics in some depth. After the reader has penetrated the crust of
what has been learned about chemical ecology of insects, the
deficiencies in our understanding of this field should become
evident. These deficiencies, to which no chapter topic is immune,
indicate the youthful state of chemical ecology and the need for
further investigations, especially those with potential for
integrating elements that are presently isolated from each other.
At the outset of this volume it becomes evident that, although we
are beginning to decipher how receptor cells work, virtually
nothing is known of how sensory information is coded to become
relevant to the insect and to control the behavior of the insect.
This problem is exacerbated by the state of our knowledge of how
chemicals are distributed in nature, especially in complex
habitats. And finally, we have been unable to understand the
significance of orientation pathways of insects, in part because of
the two previous problems: orientation seems to depend on patterns
of distri bution of chemicals, the coding of these patterns by the
central nervous system, and the generation of motor output based on
the resulting motor commands.
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