IB445-Chemical Ecology

14.  Chemical coevolution

l.          Early concepts of interactions and coevolution (Darwin 1859; Brues 1924)

2.         Role of chemistry in mediating coevolution

a. kairomones--Verschaffelt 1910

b. allomones--Fraenkel 1959

c. evolutionary scenario--Ehrlich and Raven 1964

3.         Search for evidence--coumarins as case study (Berenbaum 1983)

4.         Revisionism--Janzen 1980

5.         Genetics and coevolution (case study--Berenbaum et al. 1986)

6.         Phylogeny and coevolution (case study—Becerra 1997, Becerra and Venable 1999, Becerra 2003)

7.         More controversy (Bernays and Graham, 1988; Jones and Firn 1991; Jermy 1993)

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Revised September 2004

 
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