Silva-Brandão Karina L, Freitas André V L, Cardoso Márcio Zikán, Cogni Rodrigo, de Morais Ana Beatriz Barros
Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Av. Candido Rondom, 400, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia Animal and Museu da Diversidade Biológica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Prog Chem Org Nat Prod. 2021;116:37-66. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80560-9_2.
The interdisciplinary field of Chemical Ecology in Brazil is currently composed of groups that emerged through the pioneering studies of Keith Spalding Brown Jr. and José Tércio Barbosa Ferreira. Following Keith Brown 's steps, José Roberto Trigo continued investigating the role of plant natural products in mediating the association among insects and their host plants, mainly in the Order Lepidoptera. The role of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in those associations was investigated extensively by Brown and Trigo, and most of what is currently known on this subject is based on their studies. The present work acknowledges their contribution to the Brazilian chemical ecology field and on insect-plant communication studies mediated by different chemical compounds.
巴西化学生态学这一跨学科领域目前由一些研究团队组成，这些团队是在小基思·斯波尔丁·布朗和若泽·特尔西奥·巴尔博萨·费雷拉的开创性研究基础上发展而来的。沿着基思·布朗的足迹，若泽·罗伯托·特里戈继续研究植物天然产物在介导昆虫与其寄主植物（主要是鳞翅目昆虫）之间关联中的作用。布朗和特里戈广泛研究了吡咯里西啶生物碱在这些关联中的作用，目前关于这一主题的大部分已知内容都基于他们的研究。本研究认可他们对巴西化学生态学领域以及由不同化合物介导的昆虫与植物通讯研究的贡献。
