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J Chem Ecol

Title:		"Effect of mating on terminating aggregation during host colonization in the bark beetle,Ips paraconfusus"
Author(s):		Byers JA;
Address:		"Department of Entomological Sciences, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, California"
Journal Title:		J Chem Ecol
Year:		1981
Volume:		7
Issue:		6
Page Number:		1135 - 1147
DOI:		10.1007/BF00987633
ISSN/ISBN:		0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Attraction of maleIps paraconfusus to male-infested ponderosa pine logs was inhibited by volatiles from logs infested with mated males and females over an 8-day period in the field. The response of females during this time was not significantly inhibited by these volatiles. Synthesis of the male-specific pheromones, ipsenol and ipsdienol, appeared negligible after 8 days in males allowed to mate with 3 females in these logs while males alone contained levels of these pheromones at about half their maximum rate. The decline in pheromone production in mated males appears to result, at least in part, from a reduction in the activity of the biosynthetic system that converts the host monoterpene, myrcene, to ipsenol and ipsdienol. Mating and feeding have apparently no effect on the biosynthetic system that converts the host monoterpene, (-)-alpha-pinene, to the pheromone,cis-verbenol in either males or females. The reduced production and release of pheromones by males after mating appears to play a major function in the process of terminating the aggregation phase of host colonization"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEByers, J A eng 1981/11/01 J Chem Ecol. 1981 Nov; 7(6):1135-47. doi: 10.1007/BF00987633"