| Title: | "10-Methyldodecanal, a Novel Attractant Pheromone Produced by Males of the South American Cerambycid Beetle Eburodacrys vittata" |
| Author(s): | Silva WD; Millar JG; Hanks LM; Bento JM; |
| Address: | "Department of Entomology and Acarology, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America. Department of Chemistry, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America. Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America" |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0160727 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1932-6203 (Electronic) 1932-6203 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "We report the identification, synthesis, and field bioassay of a novel attractant pheromone produced by males of Eburodacrys vittata (Blanchard), a South American cerambycid beetle in the subfamily Cerambycinae. Headspace volatiles from males contained a sex-specific compound, identified as 10-methyldodecanal. In a field bioassay conducted in Brazil, significant numbers of males and females were caught in traps baited with synthesized racemic 10-methyldodecanal, consistent with the aggregation-sex pheromones produced by males of many cerambycine species. This compound represents a new structural class of cerambycid pheromones, and it is the first pheromone identified for a species in the tribe Eburiini" |
| Keywords: | "Aldehydes/analysis/*metabolism Animals Biological Assay/methods Chemotaxis Coleoptera/chemistry/*physiology Female Male Sex Attractants/analysis/*metabolism Sexual Behavior, Animal;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineSilva, Weliton D Millar, Jocelyn G Hanks, Lawrence M Bento, Jose Mauricio S eng S10 RR023677/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ 2016/08/12 PLoS One. 2016 Aug 11; 11(8):e0160727. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160727. eCollection 2016" |
