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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 10| Main Title | Bombardier beetles and fever trees : a close-up look at chemical warfare and signals in animals and plants / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Agosta, William C. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1996 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 32626364 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 0201626586 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Chemical ecology | |||||||||||
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| Collation | vii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes index. |
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| Contents Notes | Nature's storehouse of chemicals -- Chemical defenses in the plant world -- How animals use chemical warfare -- Chemical warfare in simpler organisms -- Medicines and drugs from plants -- Chemicals and lifestyles -- Chemical messages within the family -- Chemical messages to the wider world -- Making use of nature's molecules. |