| Title: | Sex pheromone of European corn borer. : Ostrinia nubilalis: Polymorphism in various laboratory and field strains |
| Author(s): | Pena A; Arn H; Buser HR; Rauscher S; Bigler F; Brunetti R; Maini S; Toth M; |
| Address: | "Swiss Federal Research Station, CH-8820, Wadenswil, Switzerland" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Sex gland extracts ofOstrinia nubilalis females collected in the wild or laboratory-reared from Switzerland, Italy, and Hungary were analyzed. Individuals collected in the north of Switzerland contained (Z)- and (E)-11-tetradecenyl acetate at the approximate ratio of 97ratio3 (Z type), in accordance with field responses of males and previous findings. On the other hand, females from a laboratory culture derived from field collections made in the same area and reared for four to five generations contained theZ andE isomers at ratios of ca. 3ratio97 and 35ratio65, respectively. In the south, one of the eight wild females analyzed was of theZ type and the rest intermediate, whereas males were predominantly trapped with blends of the two isomers containing 60 to 97E. In a laboratory culture reared for one to two generations from corn borers collected in Hungary, three of nine females were of the intermediate type and the restZ. Small amounts of (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate were detected in female glands of theE strain; however, no effect of this compound could be observed in the field" |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEPena, A Arn, H Buser, H R Rauscher, S Bigler, F Brunetti, R Maini, S Toth, M eng 1988/05/01 J Chem Ecol. 1988 May; 14(5):1359-66. doi: 10.1007/BF01020140" |
