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J Insect Physiol

Title:		Source of the host marking pheromone in the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)
Author(s):		Rosi MC; Isidoro N; Colazza S; Bin F;
Address:		"Agricultural Biotechnologies Department, University of Florence, P.le delle Cascine 18, 50144, Florence, Italy"
Journal Title:		J Insect Physiol
Year:		2001
Volume:		47
Issue:		9
Page Number:		989 - 995
DOI:		10.1016/s0022-1910(01)00073-7
ISSN/ISBN:		1879-1611 (Electronic) 0022-1910 (Linking)
Abstract:		"After oviposition, Trissolcus basalis females always mark the host's surface, depositing host marking substances for herself and to warn other ovipositing females. The perception of these host marking substances, probably through the antennae, can induce the female to leave and seek healthy hosts. Parasitoid females exposed to conspecific parasitized egg masses left the host egg masses significantly more often than when exposed to non-parasitized egg masses. More egg mass leaving behavior also was observed when the egg masses were treated with Dufour's gland secretion but not when treated with secretion from the common oviducts. The common oviduct has a secretory epithelium that produces electron-dense vesicles, probably containing proteinaceous substances. The secretory cells of the accessory gland, Dufour's gland, contain electron-lucid vesicles, whose secretion appears to be a lipid similarly to that found in pheromone secreting glands. Ultrastructural and behavioral evidence suggests that Dufour's gland is the host marking pheromone source"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINERosi, M C Isidoro, N Colazza, S Bin, F eng England 2001/07/27 J Insect Physiol. 2001 Sep; 47(9):989-995. doi: 10.1016/s0022-1910(01)00073-7"