| Title: | "Copulation releaser pheromone in body scales of female whitemarked tussock moth,Orgyia leucostigma (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae): Identification and behavioral role" |
| Author(s): | Grant GG; Frech D; Macdonald L; Slessor KN; King GG; |
| Address: | "Forest Pest Management Institute, Canadian Forestry Service, P.O. Box 490, P6A 5M7, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The copulatory behavior of the male whitemarked tussock moth,Orgyia leucostigma, was released by extracts of female body scales applied to rubber septum models baited with a female sex pheromone gland. The major compounds in the scale extracts were identified by GC-MS as a series ofn-alkanes from C-21 to C-29. Of these,n-tricosane,n-tetracosane,n-pentacosane, andn-heptacosane, applied at 10 ng/septum, caused significantly more males to attempt copulation than hexane-treated controls. Mixtures of then-alkanes, resembling the composition in the scale extracts, were no better than the two most active alkanes,n-tetracosane andn-pentacosane, alone. The releaser effect of then-alkanes was dose dependent. EAG responses to the identifiedn-alkanes were small suggesting, along with the behavioral observations, that their perception occurred at very close range. Other factors releasing male copulatory behavior are discussed" |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEGrant, G G Frech, D Macdonald, L Slessor, K N King, G G eng 1987/02/01 J Chem Ecol. 1987 Feb; 13(2):345-56. doi: 10.1007/BF01025894" |
