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Arch Insect Biochem Physiol

Title:		"Periodicity of sex pheromone biosynthesis, release and degradation in the lightbrown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker)"
Author(s):		Foster SP;
Address:		"The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand, Mt. Albert Research Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. Sfoster@hort.cri.nz"
Journal Title:		Arch Insect Biochem Physiol
Year:		2000
Volume:		43
Issue:		3
Page Number:		125 - 136
DOI:		10.1002/(SICI)1520-6327(200003)43:3<125::AID-ARCH4>3.0.CO;2-M
ISSN/ISBN:		0739-4462 (Print) 0739-4462 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Pheromone titer in moths is a product of three processes occurring in or at the surface of the pheromone gland: biosynthesis, release, and intraglandular degradation, of pheromone. Changes in titers of sex pheromone, the fatty acyl pheromone analog (FAPA), and tetradecanoate, a pheromone biosynthetic intermediate, were studied in detail in the lightbrown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker). Although changes in the pheromone titers in a day were relatively small, with the peak titer being 2-3 times greater than that at the trough, pheromone titer did show a distinct diel periodicity. Titer of the FAPA showed a similar, but less variable, diel pattern, but tetradecanoate titer showed little or no diel pattern. The pattern of pheromone titer suggested that females biosynthesize pheromone at two different rates during the photoperiod: a high rate during the latter half of the photophase and most of the scotophase, which is associated with a high pheromone titer, and a low rate throughout the first half of the photophase, which is associated with a low titer. Consistent with data on commencement of copulation, pheromone was released from the second hour of the scotophase through to the eighth hour. Pheromone release rate during this period appeared to be similar to the rate of pheromone biosynthesis. In contrast to the other two processes, pheromone degradation did not appear to have a diel pattern. Females decapitated at different times of the photoperiod showed a similar decline in pheromone titer, consistent with the reaction kinetics being first order in pheromone titer"
Keywords:		"Animals Chromatography, Gas/veterinary Circadian Rhythm/*physiology Fatty Acids/analysis Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated/*metabolism Female Moths/*physiology Pheromones/*biosynthesis/metabolism/physiology;"
Notes:		"MedlineFoster, S P eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2000/02/24 Arch Insect Biochem Physiol. 2000 Mar; 43(3):125-36. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6327(200003)43:3<125::AID-ARCH4>3.0.CO; 2-M"