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- URN to cite this document:
- urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-404447
- DOI to cite this document:
- 10.5283/epub.40444
Abstract
Detrimental microbes caused the evolution of a great diversity of antimicrobial defenses in plants and animals. Insects developing underground seem particularly threatened. Here we show that the eggs of a solitary digger wasp, the European beewolf Philanthus triangulum, emit large amounts of gaseous nitric oxide (NO center dot) to protect themselves and their provisions, paralyzed honeybees, ...
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