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Annu Rev Entomol

Title:		"Ecological, behavioral, and biochemical aspects of insect hydrocarbons"
Author(s):		Howard RW; Blomquist GJ;
Address:		"USDA-ARS, Manhattan, Kansas 66502, USA. howardks@ksu.edu"
Journal Title:		Annu Rev Entomol
Year:		2005
Volume:		50
Issue:
Page Number:		371 - 393
DOI:		10.1146/annurev.ento.50.071803.130359
ISSN/ISBN:		0066-4170 (Print) 0066-4170 (Linking)
Abstract:		"This review covers selected literature from 1982 to the present on some of the ecological, behavioral, and biochemical aspects of hydrocarbon use by insects and other arthropods. Major ecological and behavioral topics are species- and gender-recognition, nestmate recognition, task-specific cues, dominance and fertility cues, chemical mimicry, and primer pheromones. Major biochemical topics include chain length regulation, mechanism of hydrocarbon formation, timing of hydrocarbon synthesis and transport, and biosynthesis of volatile hydrocarbon pheromones of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. In addition, a section is devoted to future research needs in this rapidly growing area of science"
Keywords:		"Animals Behavior, Animal/physiology Hydrocarbons/*metabolism Insecta/*physiology Pheromones/*physiology Reproduction Species Specificity;"
Notes:		"MedlineHoward, Ralph W Blomquist, Gary J eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Review 2004/09/10 Annu Rev Entomol. 2005; 50:371-93. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ento.50.071803.130359"