Journal of chemical ecology

Organic sulfur compounds from Dictyopteris spp. deter feeding by an herbivorous amphipod (Ampithoe longimana) but not by an herbivorous sea urchin (Arbacia …

I Schnitzler, W Boland, ME Hay

Index: Schnitzler, Iris; Boland, Wilhelm; Hay, Mark E. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1998 , vol. 24, # 10 p. 1715 - 1732

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Abstract

Abstract Brown seaweeds in the genus Dictyopteris produce several C 11 sulfur metabolites that appear biosynthetically related to the C 11 compounds known to attract sperm to female gametes of many brown algae. All four of the C 11 sulfur compounds that we tested strongly deterred feeding by the amphipod Ampithoe longimana but had no effect on feeding by the sea urchin Arbacia punctulata, even when tested at concentrations that were two to eight ...