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J Chem Ecol

Title:		"Identification of female sex pheromone in alfalfa blotch leafminer,Agromyza frontella (Rondani)(Diptera: Agromyzidae)"
Author(s):		Carriere Y; Millar JG; McNeil JN; Miller D; Underbill EW;
Address:		"Departement de biologie, Universite Laval, G1K 7P4, Quebec, P. Q., Canada"
Journal Title:		J Chem Ecol
Year:		1988
Volume:		14
Issue:		3
Page Number:		947 - 956
DOI:		10.1007/BF01018785
ISSN/ISBN:		0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Gas chroinatography of hexane extracts of 3-day-old virgin A.frontella adults revealed a branched saturated hydrocarbon present only in females. This compound was isolated by argentation chromotography and preparative GC, identified by GC and GC-MS as 3,7-dimethylnonadecane, and subsequently synthesized. Three-day-old virgin females contained 54.1 +/- 3.5 ng (+/- SEM;N = 48) of 3,7-dimethylnonadecane. Male cadavers do not elicit male courtship behavior, but when treated with approximately 18 ng of 3,7-dimethylnonadecane they were as attractive as cadavers of 3-day-old virgin females. Black cotton knots were less attractive than male cadavers when treated with 3,7-dimethylnonadecane, but all bioassays indicated that this compound is an important semiochemical modulating male mating behavior"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINECarriere, Y Millar, J G McNeil, J N Miller, D Underbill, E W eng 1988/03/01 J Chem Ecol. 1988 Mar; 14(3):947-56. doi: 10.1007/BF01018785"