Bombardier Beetles
  • Introduction
  • Physiology
  • Evolution
  • Reference list

References

Anashansley, D et al. 1969, ‘Biochemistry at 100° C: Explosive Secretory Discharge of Bombardier Beetles (Brachinus)’, American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol 165, issue 3888, pp 61-63.

Armitage, M & Mullisen, L 2003, Preliminary Observations of the Pygidial Gland of the Bombardier Beetle, Brachinus sp., viewed 20 August 2013, http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tj/v17/n1/beetle#fnList_1_12

Division of Entomology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 1991, The insects of Australia: a textbook for students and research workers, 2nd edn, vol. 2, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.

Eisner, T & Dean, J 1976, ‘Ploy and counterploy in predator-prey interactions: Orb-weaving spiders versus bombardier beetles’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 1365-1367.

Eisner, T et al. 2000, ‘Spray mechanism of the most primitive bombardier beetle (Metrius contractus)’, The Journal of experimental biology, vol. 203, no. 8, pp. 1265.

Eisner, T, Eisner M & Siegler, M 2005, Secret Weapons: defences of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatues, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

Forsyth, D 1970, ‘The ultrastructure of the pygidial defence glands of the carabid Pterostichus madidus F’, Journal of Morphology, vol. 131, no. 4, pp. 397-415.

Isaak, M 1997, Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design, viewed 19 August 2013, http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bombardier.html

Kanehisa, K & Murase, M 1977, ‘Comparative Study of the Pygidial Defensive Systems of Carabid Beetles’, Applied entomology and zoology, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 225-235.

Maddison, D 1995, Coleoptera, viewed 21 August 2013, http://tolweb.org/Coleoptera/8221

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