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J Chem Ecol

Title:		"Isolation, identification, and synthesis of male-produced sex pheromone of papaya fruit fly,Toxotrypana curvicauda Gerstaecker (Diptera: Tephritidae)"
Author(s):		Chuman T; Landolt PJ; Heath RR; Tumlinson JH;
Address:		"Japan Tobacco, Inc., Yokohama, 227, Kanagama, Japan"
Journal Title:		J Chem Ecol
Year:		1987
Volume:		13
Issue:		9
Page Number:		1979 - 1992
DOI:		10.1007/BF01014680
ISSN/ISBN:		0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking)
Abstract:		"A male-produced sex pheromone of the papaya fruit fly,Toxotrypana curvicauda Gerstaecker, was isolated from volatiles collected from air passed over calling males and was identified as 2-methyl-6-vinylpyrazine by comparative gas-liquid chromatographic and spectroscopic evidence. Synthetic 2-methyl-6-vinylpyrazine elicited typical pheromonal responses from unmated mature female flies such as walking, running, and flying in an arena bioassay; flying upwind with a zigzag flight pattern; and hovering in the pheromone plume in a wind-tunnel bioassay. These responses were similar quantitatively and qualitatively to responses to naturally occurring pheromone from calling male papaya fruit flies"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEChuman, T Landolt, P J Heath, R R Tumlinson, J H eng 1987/09/01 J Chem Ecol. 1987 Sep; 13(9):1979-92. doi: 10.1007/BF01014680"