Sex Pheromones
Sex pheromones in mate assessment: analysis of nutrient cost of sex pheromone production by females of the moth Heliothis virescens
... Most moth sex pheromones are biosynthesized de novo from acetyl CoA in a specialized gland via fatty acid synthesis and chain modification. While there have been numerous studies on the enzymes involved and ...
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Quantitative trait locus analysis of mating behavior and male sex pheromones in Nasonia wasps
... and sex pheromones appear to be responsible for premating isolation between ...long-range sex pheromone to attract virgin females (Ruther et ...the sex pheromone component ...
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Expression and Function of Sex Pheromones and Receptors in the Homothallic Ascomycete Gibberella zeae
... The mechanism of sexual fertilization and the role of pher- omones are not known for G. zeae or any other Gibberella species. Information on the sex pheromones in G. zeae may provide insights into the ...
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An ABC Transporter Is Required for Secretion of Peptide Sex Pheromones in Enterococcus faecalis
... of pheromones, is illustrated in Fig. 7. It is known that peptide sex pheromones in ...peptide pheromones is dependent on active transport mediated by ...peptide sex pher- omones does ...
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A male-specific odorant receptor conserved through the evolution of sex pheromones in Ostrinia moth species
... the sex pheromones emitted by the conspecific females, males should have a sys- tem that can discriminate pheromone components and their ...Two sex pheromone receptors (BmOR1 and BmOR3) have been ...
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Evaluation of the Efficacy of Sex Pheromones and Food Attractants Used to Monitor and Control Synanthedon Myopaeformis (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)
... the sex pheromones of ...of pheromones as a mating disruption technique led to a decrease of tree injury in comparison to untreated controls during the three years of the ...
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Central nervous processing of sex pheromones in two strains of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
... Sex pheromone receptor neurones, like other olfactory receptor neurones in insects, project into the first olfactory neuropile, the antennal lobe, through the antennal nerve (Bretschneider, 1924). The antennal ...
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The attraction of virgin female hide beetles (Dermestes maculatus) to cadavers by a combination of decomposition odour and male sex pheromones
... itself in order to have access to food. We cannot exclude that they feed on alternative animal food sources other than carcasses. A further explanation of our finding that newly emerged (and thus starved) females are not ...
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An ABC Transporter Is Required for Secretion of Peptide Sex Pheromones in Enterococcus faecalis
... elements. Pheromones to which the donor cells respond derive from lipoprotein signal ...of sex pheromones, we screened a transposon mutant library for functions that relate to the production and/or ...
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A Mutation With Major Effects on Drosophila melanogaster Sex Pheromones
... D. melanogaster adults (Table 3). This developmental period was chosen because it is critical for the differen- tiation of sex pheromones (W icker and J allon 1995; F erveur et al. 1997; S avarit and F ...
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Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis of Mating Behavior and Male Sex Pheromones in Nasonia Wasps.
... and sex pheromones appear to be responsible for premating isolation between ...long-range sex pheromone to attract virgin females (Ruther et ...the sex pheromone component ...
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Determinants of Variation in the Response of the Aphid Parasitoid Aphidius ervi to Aphid Sex Pheromones
... Conducting behavioural experiments, the searching behaviour of females was investigated in the presence and the absence of the aphid sex pheromone (4GS,7S,7a/?)-nepetalactone, observin[r] ...
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Genetics of Sex Pheromones: Mapping Desaturase Genes in Heliothis Species.
... of pheromones has been studied since the nineteenth century (Fabre ...with pheromones described only the long-range attraction of male moths to female moths (Wyatt ...organism. Pheromones are like ...
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Responses of aphid parasitoids to aphid sex pheromones: laboratory and field studies
... Figure 6.9 Total numbers of Praon and Aphidius mummies recorded from pheromone and control winter wheat plots in 1996 field trial... Figure 6.10 Percentage parasitisation in wint[r] ...
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Chemical Communication in the German Cockroach: Pheromones and Heterospecific Courtship Eliciting Compounds
... volatile sex pheromones, however, each of the four known contact sex pheromone components of the German cockroach can independently elicit courtship, and some “minor”, less abundant components are ...
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A set of female pheromones affects reproduction before, during and after mating in Drosophila
... Canton-S (Cs) is a widely used control strain of Drosophila melanogaster. Tai is a CH-variant strain from Ivory Coast that has been kept in the laboratory for over two decades (Jallon and Pechiné, 1989). The desat1 ...
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Holman et al 2013 - phylo queen pheromones
... queen pheromones might evolve at a different rate to other hydrocarbons is a difference in selection pressures arising from the role of queen hydrocarbons in signalling fertility (Smith et ...other ...
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Scents and sex: insect pheromones
... insect sex pheromones has been the control of horticultural and agricultural pests, and also the control of insects acting as vectors for pathogens aff ecting farm animals and human ...insect sex ...
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Two predominant MUPs, OBP3 and MUP13, are male pheromones in rats
... rodents, pheromones acting as sexually selected traits are associated with sex, reproductive readiness and the quality of the signallers ...[1]. Sex pheromones are released by animals to ...
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Decay rates of attractive and repellent pheromones in an ant foraging trail network
... Attractive pheromone: Trials were performed using a Y-bifurcation apparatus, similar to the experimental apparatus used by Jeanson et al. (2003). Prior to a trial, the bifurcation apparatus was left in the foraging arena ...
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