Integrative Biology 445 - Chemical Ecology
PowerPoints


Introduction

Semiochemicals

Chemoreception

Pheromones of microbes

Pheromones of fungi and plants

Pheromones of non-insect invertebrates

Pheromones of insects (sex)

Pheromones of insects (aphrodisiacs)

Pheromones of insects (epideictic)

Pheromones of insects (sociochemicals)

Pheromones of vertebrates

Pheromones of humans

Coevolution

Microbial allomones - bacterial toxins and mycotoxins

Microbial allomones - antibiotics

Phytotoxins

Survey of plant biosynthetic pathways 1

Survey of plant biosynthetic pathways 2

Phytoalexins

Mycorrhizae and endophytes

Parasitic plants

Allelopathy

Plant allomones and vertebrates

Plant allomones and humans

Plant allomones and insects

Insect allomones

Invertebrate allomones

Sequestration

Venoms

Aggressive allomones

Predator-prey kairomones

Host parasite kairomones

Plant-insect kairomones

Plant-vertebrate kairomones

Pollination

Frugivory

Ectosymbiosis

Atta slides

Endosymbiosis

Plant kairomones/synomones humans

Apneumones

Community level chemical ecology