Sentences with phrase «chemical ecologist»
A chemical ecologist is a scientist who studies how chemicals affect the behavior and interactions of living organisms in nature. Full definition
Plants rely on a complex microbiome to help them obtain nutrients from the soil, but most research on plants and soil microbes has focused on interactions that happen right at the edges of plant roots, said Paolina Garbeva, a microbial chemical ecologist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen.
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Even though that's possible, says chemical ecologist Andre Kessler of Cornell University, we're still a long way from an actual application.
«It's not surprising that chemicals in frass would be something that caterpillars have to worry about,» says chemical ecologist Jack Scultz at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
For years, chemical ecologist Dawn Luthe and her students wondered why fall armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera frugiperda) let piles of feces, known as frass, accumulate on corn, trapped in the plant's cuplike whorls where the leaves join the stalk.
Cryptocercus roaches live in almost termitelike style in the Appalachian Mountains, not too far from chemical ecologist and cockroach fan Coby Schal at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
Author's note: This essay was originally posted on April 19, 2011, at Artful Amoeba 1.0 honoring the work of the late Thomas Eisner, a world - renowned chemical ecologist.
Scientists who work in this field are called chemical ecologists.
Chemical ecologist Qian «Karen» Sun gave a talk about how these creatures «speak» to interact, cooperate and achieve colony - level success.
William Agosta, a chemical ecologist at The Rockefeller University in New York City, is impressed.
Or, as Thomas Eisner, a chemical ecologist at Cornell University, pithily notes, «it shows what happens if you eat your vegetables.»
Eager to uncover more clues about how this olfactory trick might help shape evolution, Davis is now working with Robert Raguso, a chemical ecologist at Cornell University who studies communication between flowers and pollinators.
Millar, a chemical ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, expects to see «a cascade of studies» on what he calls an excellent example of the coevolution of insect - plant interaction.
«It's a very surprising discovery,» comments John A. Pickett, a chemical ecologist at Rothamsted Research Station, in Harpenden, England.
«Our work provides evidence that human hosts become more attractive to malarial mosquitoes during infection,» says Mike Birkett, a chemical ecologist in the Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection at Rothamsted.
The new study shows that the responding female wasps «seem to be forgiving to some extent,» says Christer Löfstedt, a chemical ecologist at Lund University in Sweden who was not involved in the research.
For flies that feast on the bees» guts, it's the perfect bait, Stefan Dötterl, a chemical ecologist at the University of Salzburg in Austria, and colleagues report online October 6 in Current Biology.
This reaction usually takes place inside a herbivore's gut, says Helene Engler, a chemical ecologist at the University of Texas, Austin.
The larvae's ability to prevent cyanide production is «unique,» says David Jones, a chemical ecologist at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
As a chemical ecologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Gainesville, Fla., Vander Meer studies the role of chemicals in plants, animals and their environment.
He is a chemical ecologist at the University of Eastern Finland in northern Europe.
«The idea that changes in plant chemistry and therefore plant resistance may change the probability of cannibalism is very original,» says Andre Kessler, a chemical ecologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who did not participate in the study.
Glenn Svensson, a chemical ecologist at The University of Lund in Sweden, led an international team of scientists, including members Joshua Tree Genome Project, in collecting samples of Joshua tree scent.