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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Title:		Chemical communication in scarab beetles: reciprocal behavioral agonist-antagonist activities of chiral pheromones
Author(s):		Leal WS;
Address:		"Laboratory of Chemical Prospecting, National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science, Tsukuba, Japan"
Journal Title:		Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Year:		1996
Volume:		93
Issue:		22
Page Number:		12112 - 12115
DOI:		10.1073/pnas.93.22.12112
ISSN/ISBN:		0027-8424 (Print) 1091-6490 (Electronic) 0027-8424 (Linking)
Abstract:		"A novel mechanism of reciprocal behavioral agonist-antagonist activities of enantiomeric pheromones plays a pivotal role in overcoming the signal-to-noise problem derived from the use of a single-constituent pheromone system in scarab beetles. Female Anomala osakana produce (S, Z)-5-(+)-(1-decenyl)oxacyclopentan-2-one, which is highly attractive to males; the response is completely inhibited even by 5% of its antipode. These two enantiomers have reverse roles in the Popillia japonica sex pheromone system. Chiral GC-electroantennographic detector experiments suggest that A. osakana and P. japonica have both R and S receptors that are responsible for behavioral agonist and antagonist responses"
Keywords:		"*Animal Communication Animals Coleoptera Female Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Male Pheromones/chemistry/*physiology Sexual Behavior, Animal/physiology Stereoisomerism;"
Notes:		"MedlineLeal, W S eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 1996/10/29 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Oct 29; 93(22):12112-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.22.12112"