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J Chem Ecol

Title:		"Female sex pheromone of the common furniture beetleAnobium punctatum (Coleoptera: Anobiidae): Extraction, identification, and bioassays"
Author(s):		White PR; Birch MC;
Address:		"Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, 0X1 3PS, Oxford, UK"
Journal Title:		J Chem Ecol
Year:		1987
Volume:		13
Issue:		7
Page Number:		1695 - 1706
DOI:		10.1007/BF00980211
ISSN/ISBN:		0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Observations and reports on the common furniture beetleAnobium punctatum suggested that, on emergence, females use a sex pheromone to attract males. GLC analysis of ovipositor extracts showed the presence of a single component, which was found to be active by EAG and coupled GLC-EAG techniques, and to attract males in both walking and flying assays. The pheromone was identified by GC-MS as 2,3-dihydro-2,3,5-trimethyl-6-(1-methyl-2-oxobutyl)-4H-pyran-4-one (stegobinone), which is the sex pheromone of another anobiid, the drugstore beetle,Stegobium paniceum. MaleA. punctatum responded equally to ovipositor extracts of either species, at both the sensory (EAG) and behavioral levels, which poses the question as to how species specificity in mate attraction is achieved"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEWhite, P R Birch, M C eng 1987/07/01 J Chem Ecol. 1987 Jul; 13(7):1695-706. doi: 10.1007/BF00980211"