Electroantennogram Responses to Female Sex Pheromones in Five Genera of Lymantriidae (Lepidoptera)

1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 676-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Priesner
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Sex Pheromones ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
European Species ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Female Pheromone ◽  
Pheromone Glands

Sex pheromones of European species of Lymantria, Euproctis, Stilpnotia, Orgyia, and Dasychira (Lymantriidae) have been cross-checked by recording male electroantennogram (EAG) responses to excised female pheromone glands. Within the same genus, there was invariably full reciprocity of the gland effects. Between different genera, however, in all species combinations investigated the males strongly preferred their own species. From this pattern it is concluded that the major pheromone constituents are different for the five genera. In accordance with these results, several species of Lymantria are either known or supposed to produce the same sexual attractant, cis-7,8-epoxy-2-methyloctadecane (disparlure), whereas for one species of Orgyia the sex pheromone was recently identified (Smith et al., Science 188, 63 [1975]) as cis-6-heneicosen-11-one. None of the additional lymantriid pheromones have yet been chemically defined. In EAG screening tests, some species of this family were specifically responsive to hydrocarbons related to cis-7,2-methylocta-decene, the olefinic precursor of disparlure.

Diel changes in the presence and physiological actions of octopamine in the female sex-pheromone glands of heliothine moths

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 841-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Christensen ◽  
Herman K. Lehman ◽  
Peter E.A. Teal ◽  
Haruhiko Itagaki ◽  
James H. Tumlinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Female Sex Pheromone ◽  
Diel Changes ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Heliothine Moths ◽  
Pheromone Glands

Synthesis and Field Tests of Sex Pheromone Components of the Leafroller Argyrotaenia sphaleropa

2004 ◽  
Vol 59 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 708-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Legrand ◽  
Marco Botton ◽  
Peter Witzgall ◽  
Rikard Unelius
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Wittig Reaction ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Field Trapping ◽  
Female Pheromone ◽  
Sex Pheromone Components ◽  
Pheromone Components ◽  
Trap Catches ◽  
Pheromone Glands

Abstract Female pheromone glands of the leafroller Argyrotaenia sphaleropa were analyzed. Two acetates were identified as (11Z,13)-tetradecadien-1-yl acetate and (11Z)-tetradecen-1-yl acetate by comparison with synthesized references. The (11Z,13)-tetradecadien-1-yl acetate and the aldehyde (11Z,13)-tetradecadienal were synthesized via a Wittig reaction. A field-trapping test showed that a lure consisting of a mixture of (11Z,13)-tetradecadienal and (11Z,13)- tetradecadien-1-yl acetate in a 10:1-ratio produced the highest trap catches.

Morphology of putative female sex pheromone glands and mating behaviour in Aphidoletes aphidimyza

2002 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joop C. Lenteren ◽  
Mauro Schettino ◽  
Nunzio Isidoro ◽  
Roberto Romani ◽  
Jeroen Schelt
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Female Sex Pheromone ◽  
Aphidoletes Aphidimyza ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Pheromone Glands

Electrophysiological responses of males of the potato cyst nematodes, Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida, to their sex pheromones

Parasitology ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Riga ◽  
R. N. Perry ◽  
J. Barrett ◽  
M. R. L. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Sex Pheromones ◽  
Agar Plate ◽  
Globodera Rostochiensis ◽  
Spike Frequency ◽  
Potato Cyst Nematodes ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Female Sex Pheromone ◽  
Cyst Nematodes ◽  
Female Sex

SummaryThe response of individual adult males of the potato cyst nematodes, Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida, to sex pheromones from adult females was investigated using electrophysiological techniques. Each male nematode was pierced with an electrode close to the cephalic region and then exposed to pheromones from virgin females. Cellular responses in the form of action potentials were recorded as spike activity. The spike frequency produced by G. rostochiensis and G. pallida males increased significantly after the application of their homospecific pheromone. The spike frequency produced by G. pallida males also increased significantly after the application of G. rostochiensis female sex pheromone. In contrast, males of G. rostochiensis showed no significant response to G. pallida female sex pheromone. The electrophysiological results support and considerably extend information from agar plate behavioural bioassays.

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