Title: | "Sex pheromone of the winter moth, a geometrid with unusually low temperature precopulatory responses" |
Author(s): | Roelofs WL; Hill AS; Linn CE; Meinwald J; Jain SC; Herbert HJ; Smith RF; |
DOI: | 10.1126/science.217.4560.657 |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0036-8075 (Print) 0036-8075 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "The sex pheromone for the winter moth, Operophtera brumata (L.), has been identified as the novel compound (Z,Z,Z)-1,3,6,9-nonadecatetraene. The male moths respond to the pheromone at low temperatures (4 degrees to 15 degrees C) and exhibit an upper response limit that coincides with the lower response limit for other reported moth sex pheromone systems. The pheromone attracted two other geometrid species, O. bruceata (Bruce spanworm) and O. occidentalis" |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINERoelofs, W L Hill, A S Linn, C E Meinwald, J Jain, S C Herbert, H J Smith, R F eng 1982/08/13 Science. 1982 Aug 13; 217(4560):657-9. doi: 10.1126/science.217.4560.657" |