Vincent Dethier - Academic Publications

Academic Publications

Vincent Dethier wrote over 170 scholarly papers and authored or co-authored several academic books. These include:

Books

• Vincent Dethier (1947) Chemical Insect Attractants and Repellents, Blakiston Press (8 editions published between 1947 and 1972)
• Vincent Dethier (1963) The physiology of insect senses, Methuen
• Vincent Dethier and Eliot Stellar (1961) Animal behavior: its evolutionary and neurological basis, Prentice-Hall (12 editions published between 1961 and 1970)
• Claude Alvin Villee and Vincent Dethier (1971) Biological principles and processes, Saunders
• Vincent Dethier (1976) Man's plague?: Insects and agriculture, Darwin Press

Papers

• Vincent Dethier (1937) "Gustation and olfaction in lepidopterous larvae", Biology Bulletin, 72:7-23
• Vincent Dethier and L. E. Chadwick (1947) "Rejection thresholds of the blowfly for a series of aliphatic alcohols", Journal of General Physiology, 30:247-253
• Vincent Dethier (1951) "The limiting mechanism in tarsal chemoreception", Journal of General Physiology, 35:55-65.
• Vincent Dethier (1954) "Evolution of feeding preferences in phytophagous insects", Evolution, 8:33-54
• Vincent Dethier (1957) "Communication by insects: physiology of dancing", Science, 125:331-336.
• Vincent Dethier and R. H. MacArthur (1964) "A field's capacity to support a butterfly population", Nature 201:729
• Vincent Dethier (1964) "Microscopic Brains" Science, 143:1138-1145
• Vincent Dethier (1973) "Electrophysiological studies of gustation in lepidopterous larvae II: Taste spectra in relation to food-plant discrimination", Journal of General Physiology, 82:103-134
• Vincent Dethier (1980) "Food-aversion learning in two polyphagous caterpillars, Diacrisia virginica and Estigmene congrua", Physiological Entomology 5:321-325
• Vincent Dethier (1993) "Food-finding by polyphagous arctiid caterpillars lacking antennal and maxillary chemoreceptors", Canadian Entomologist 125(1):85-92.