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Author Agosta, William C.

Title Bombardier beetles and fever trees : a close-up look at chemical warfare and signals in animals and plants / William Agosta.

Imprint Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  577 Ag75b 1996    ---  Available
Description vii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Helix books
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Subject Chemical ecology.
ISBN 0201626586

 
    
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