Eisner, Thomas

Eisner, Thomas, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA... 

Eisner, Thomas. For Love of Insects. Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. This highly readable book discusses a broad range of insect chemistry. 

Chemical ecology the chemistry of biotic interaction / Thomas Eisner and Jerrold Meinwald, editors, p. cm. 

I thank Thomas Eisner and Jerrold Meinwald for asking me to think in broad terms about chemical defenses and for serving as an inspiration to me for the past two decades, and I thank Arthur Zangerl and James Nitao for their comments, insights, and unique good cheer. This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant DEB 91-19612. 

Jerrold Meinwald is Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry and Thomas Eisner is Schurman Professor of Biology and director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York-... 

This chapter is dedicated to Professor Thomas Eisner, a remarkable scientist and a pioneer in the field of chemical ecology. 

We thank Nickolay Hristov and Thomas Eisner for the use of photographs (Plate 1, lower left by T. E. Plate 1, lower right by N. H.) and Rebecca Simmons for comments on the manuscript. 

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