| Title: | Monoalkenes as contact sex pheromone components of the woodwasp Sirex noctilio |
| Author(s): | Boroczky K; Crook DJ; Jones TH; Kenny JC; Zylstra KE; Mastro VC; Tumlinson JH; |
| Address: | "Center for Chemical Ecology, Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. katalin.by@gmail.com" |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10886-009-9693-6 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1573-1561 (Electronic) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "A pheromone on the cuticle of females of the woodwasp Sirex noctilio, a recently introduced pest of pines in North America, induces conspecific males to attempt copulation. Dead females washed with hexane did not elicit copulation attempts from males, whereas reapplication of a female hexane body wash onto the cuticle of dead females elicited copulation attempts by 65% of males tested. Analysis of the hexane extract revealed saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons as major components of the female cuticle. Behavior-guided fractionation of the female body wash led to the identification of three components, (Z)-7-heptacosene, (Z)-7-nonacosene, and (Z)-9-nonacosene, of the sex pheromone of S. noctilio that elicited copulatory responses from males" |
| Keywords: | Alkenes/chemistry/*pharmacology Animals Biological Assay Copulation/drug effects Female Hymenoptera/*chemistry/*drug effects/physiology Lipids/chemistry/pharmacology Male Sex Attractants/chemistry/*pharmacology Skin/chemistry; |
| Notes: | "MedlineBoroczky, Katalin Crook, Damon J Jones, Tappey H Kenny, Joshua C Zylstra, Kelley E Mastro, Victor C Tumlinson, James H eng 2009/10/06 J Chem Ecol. 2009 Oct; 35(10):1202-11. doi: 10.1007/s10886-009-9693-6. Epub 2009 Oct 3" |
