Title: | Oviposition deterring pheromone inAnastrepha fraterculus flies |
Author(s): | Prokopy RJ; Malavasi A; Morgante JS; |
Address: | "Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, Massachusetts" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) females were found to deposit a water-soluble, durable, oviposition-deterring pheromone during ovipositor dragging on fruit after egg-laying. We present evidence that the occurrence of pheromone deposition after egg-laying, the amount deposited, and departure from the fruit without additional egg-laying after pheromone deposition are flexible traits inA. fraterculus, varying in expression according to fruit size and other factors. UnlikeRhagoletis, A. fraterculus males were not arrested by the pheromone" |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEProkopy, R J Malavasi, A Morgante, J S eng 1982/04/01 J Chem Ecol. 1982 Apr; 8(4):763-71. doi: 10.1007/BF00988317" |