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Title:		Clarification of the chemical status of the pink bollworm sex pheromone
Author(s):		Hummel HE; Gaston LK; Shorey HH; Word RS; Byrni KJ; Silverstein RM;
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Journal Title:		Science
Year:		1973
Volume:		181
Issue:		4102
Page Number:		873 - 875
DOI:		10.1126/science.181.4102.873
ISSN/ISBN:		0036-8075 (Print) 0036-8075 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Propylure, 10-n-propyl-trans-5,9-tridecadienyl acetate, and deet, N,N,-diethyl-m-tolumide, were previously reported as the sex pheromone and a sex pheromone activator, respectively, of the pink bollworm. Neither chemical in three extracts of female moth abdomen tips could be detected by gas-liquid chromatographic analysis. These compounds, alone or in combination, exhibited little or no biological activity in the laboratory or in the field. Hexalure, cis-7-hexadecenyl acetate, a synthetic attractant for pink bollworm males, could not be detected in female moth abdomen tip extracts. The pink bollworm sex pheromone was identified as a mixture of cis,cis and cis,trans isomers of 7,11-hexadecadienyl acetate"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEHummel, H E Gaston, L K Shorey, H H Word, R S Byrni, K J Silverstein, R M eng 1973/08/31 Science. 1973 Aug 31; 181(4102):873-5. doi: 10.1126/science.181.4102.873"