Cuticular hydrocarbons regulate mate recognition, male aggression, and female choice of the rove beetle,Aleochara curtula.

abstract：:Fertile queens of the antMonomorium pharaonis produce a chemical substance which is not present in worker ants or in young, alate (virgin) queens. The material has been identified as (E,E,E)-1-isopropenyl-4,8,12-trimethylcyclotetradeca-3,7,11-triene (neocembrene). This chemical is produced in the Dufour's gland of fer...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Edwards JP,Chambers J

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the olfactory communication of the Neotropical short-tailed singing mouse, Scotinomys teguina, by investigating whether S. teguina responded to odors produced by the mid-ventral sebaceous gland of conspecifics. Females spent significantly more time investigating male odor than an odorless stimulus or a fem...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Fernández-Vargas M,Tang-Martínez Z,Phelps SM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of coumarin on the length, diameter, and branching density of different root types in maize seedlings (Zea mays L. cv. Cecilia) were investigated. The maize root system represents a useful model for morphological studies, as it consists of radicle, seminal, and nodal roots whose origin and development are ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Abenavoli MR,Sorgonà A,Albano S,Cacco G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven volatile compounds identified from the headspace of whole wheat bread dough were investigated for their role in attractingGlischrochilus quadrisignatus andG. fasciatus in the field. Traps baited with either whole wheat bread dough or a synthetic seven-component bread dough odor caught similar numbers of these be...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Lin H,Phelan PL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several major chemicals in the glandular heads of type VI trichomes ofLycopersicon species were identified and quantified by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. Two normal odd-chained ketones, 2-undecanone (47 ng) and 2-tridecanone (146 ng), and one unknown sesquiterpene (5 ng), comprised approximately 95% of th...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Lin SY,Trumble JT,Kumamoto J

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foliage and fruit of the tomato plantLycopersicon esculentum contains polyphenol oxidases (PPO) and peroxidases (POD) that are compartmentally separated from orthodihydroxyphenolic substrates in situ. However, when leaf tissue is damaged by insect feeding, the enzyme and phenolic substrates come in contact, result...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Felton GW,Donato K,Del Vecchio RJ,Duffey SS

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mating behaviour of the signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana), has been categorised into seven distinct stages: orientation; contact; seizure; turning; mounting; spermatophore deposition; and dismounting. These categories were used in the development of a bioassay to test whether mature females release ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Stebbing PD,Bentley MG,Watson GJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaves of Chrysanthemum morifolium cv. Ramat were extracted sequentially with hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol. The methanol fraction, when incorporated into artificial diet was found to reduce the growth of cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni Hubner) larvae at concentrations between 500 and 5000 ppm of diet. Fractiona...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Beninger CW,Abou-Zaid MM,Kistner AL,Hallett RH,Iqbal MJ,Grodzinski B,Hall JC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Details of the syntheses of the four stereoisomers of 8-methyl-2-decanol and its propanoate ester are given. The racemic ester, two of its stereoisomers, and one stereoisomer as an acetate are attractive to several species ofDiabrotica. The key steps in the syntheses involve high-performance liquid chromatograpic reso...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Sonnet PE,Carney RL,Henrick C

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sex pheromone produced by female banded cucumber beetle adults,Diabrotica balteata LeConte, was isolated from volatiles trapped on Porapak Q and identified as 6,12-dimethylpentadecan-2-one. The structure was elucidated by spectroscopic analyses and confirmed by synthesis. The synthesized racemic compound was equal t...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Chuman T,Guss PL,Doolittle RE,McLaughlin JR,Krysan JL,Schalk JM,Tumlinson JH

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose triacetate was investigated as a chiral stationary phase for preparatively separating the enantiomers of lineatin, frontalin, exo-brevicomin, endo-brevicomin, verbenone, (E)-conophthorin, and grandisol. Tens of milligrams of both enantiomers were efficiently prepared in high percentage enantiomeric excess fr...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Keeling CI,Ngo HT,Benusic KD,Slessor KN

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parsnip webworm,Depressaria pastinacella (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae), feeds on plants rich in furanocoumarins, phototoxic allomones. Final-instar larvae possess high levels of activities of antioxidant enzymes (Superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione reductase), which detoxify oxygen radicals generated from th...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Lee K,Berenbaum MR

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of the fungus Fusarium equiseti isolated from soybean cyst nematode secretes nematode-antagonistic compounds. Bioassay-guided fractionation of an extract of the culture broth was undertaken to identify the compounds. Fractions were assayed for activity against a root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita), a p...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Nitao JK,Meyer SL,Schmidt WF,Fettinger JC,Chitwood DJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardenolide content of the gut, wings, and fat body ofOncopeltus fasciatus was examined. The female fat body contained 4-5% of the total cardenolide content of the insect. The cardenolide content of male fat body, and gut and wings of both sexes was below the detection limit of the cardenolide assay. Thin-layer ch...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Moore LV,Scudder GG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialized metabolites in plants influence their interactions with other species, including herbivorous insects, which may adapt to tolerate defensive phytochemicals. The chemical arsenal of Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard, Brassicaceae) includes the glucosinolate sinigrin and alliarinoside, a hydroxynitrile gluco...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Frisch T,Agerbirk N,Davis S,Cipollini D,Olsen CE,Motawia MS,Bjarnholt N,Møller BL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical mimicry is an effective strategy when signal receivers recognize and discriminate models by relying on chemical cues. Some aphid enemies mimic the cuticular chemicals of aphids through various means thus avoiding detection and attack by aphid-tending ants. However, because ants have been reported to learn the...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hayashi M,Nomura M,Nakamuta K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In field tests synthetic (3E,5Z)-3,5-tetradecadienyl acetate was found to attract large numbers of males ofRecurvaria leucatella Clerck into sticky traps. The other geometrical isomers did not influence catches. Of the corresponding monoenic compounds, (3E)-3-tetradecenyl acetate was highly attractive to a close relat...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Tòth M,Doolittle RE

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During development of figs on Ficus hispida, only the female floral stage is receptive to its pollinator Ceratosolen solmsi marchali. After this stage, the quantity of fig odor decreases. The effects of F. hispida volatiles from receptive figs (figs at the female floral stage, when they are pollinated) and interfloral...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Chen C,Song Q

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many plant secondary compounds induce detoxification activity in herbivorous insects. Although inducibility may be advantageous as a means of reducing costs associated with maintenance of metabolism, another benefit of inducibility is that it may allow insects to tailor their detoxification profiles to multiple substr...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Cianfrogna JA,Zangerl AR,Berenbaum MR

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain insect species can induce gall formation on numerous plants species. Although the mechanism of gall development is largely unknown, it is clear that insects manipulate their hosts' anatomy, physiology, and chemistry for their own benefit. It is well known that insect-induced galls often contain vast amounts of...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Rand K,Bar E,Ari MB,Davidovich-Rikanati R,Dudareva N,Inbar M,Lewinsohn E

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of establishing whether the oxidation of the tricyclic carbon skeleton of scalaradial (1) is specific to Glossodoris mollusks, the chemical investigation of specimens of Glossodoris pallida from two distinct geographical areas (China and Guam) and of Glossodoris vespa and Glossodoris averni from Eastern A...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Manzo E,Gavagnin M,Somerville MJ,Mao SC,Ciavatta ML,Mollo E,Schupp PJ,Garson MJ,Guo YW,Cimino G

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three compounds have been identified as sex pheromone components produced by female fall webworm moths,Hyphantria cunea (Drury). These compounds are: (Z,Z)-9,12-octadecadienal (I), (Z,Z,Z)-9,12,15-octadecatrienal (II), and (Z,Z)-3,6-cis-9,10-epoxyheneicosadiene (III). The ratio of these compounds was approximately 5∶6...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hill AS,Kovalev BG,Nikolaeva LN,Roelofs WL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex pheromone components of the two sibling species of the dingy cutworm that occur on the prairies of western Canada were identified in abdomen-tip extracts from calling female moths. Three monounsaturated acetates, (Z)-7-dodecenyl acetate, (Z)-9-tetradecenyl acetate, and (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate, are common to...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Byers JR,Struble DL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early theories on plant chemical defense against herbivory emphasized that apparent and unapparent plants were primarily defended by different types of compounds. More and more evidence suggests that both quantitative and qualitative defenses are found in apparent plants and that they can play a defensive role against...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Barbosa P,Gross P,Provan GJ,Pacheco DY,Stermitz FR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The female parasitic waspCotesia kariyai discriminated between the volatiles of corn leaves infested by younger host larvaePseudaletia separata (first to fourth instar) and uninfested leaves in a Y-tube olfactometer; the wasps were attracted to the infested leaves. In contrast, when corn plants were infested by the la...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Takabayashi J,Takahashi S,Dicke M,Posthumus MA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sorghum shootfly,Atherigona soccata, under low population density conditions lays one egg per sorghum plant. Possible regulatory mechanisms of this oviposition behavior are reported. The presence of an egg thoroughly washed and reattached to a leaf does not deter further oviposition, indicating the absence of visu...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Raina AK

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated postpollination changes in fragrance composition and emission rates, as well as pollinator discrimination in hand-pollinated flower heads of two thistle species: Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) and sandhill thistle (C. repandum). Following pollination, neither species emitted any novel compounds that ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Theis N,Raguso RA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attractiveness to male navel orangeworm moth, Amyelois transitella, of various combinations of a four-component pheromone blend was measured in wind-tunnel bioassays. Upwind flight along the pheromone plume and landing on the odor source required the simultaneous presence of two components, (11Z,13Z)-hexadecadiena...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Kanno H,Kuenen LP,Klingler KA,Millar JG,Cardé RT

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent observations of social behavior and reproduction in wolves, coyotes, hunting dogs, mongooses, and lions suggest possible involvement of pheromones in the regulation of reproductive activity. Observed phenomena resemble the known pheromonal effects in mice such as suppression or synchronization of estrus, induct...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hradecký P

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MaleGrapholitha molesta hairpencil components are ethyltrans-cinnamate, mellein, methyl jasmonate, and methyl 2-epijasmonate. The natural behavioral effect elicited by hairpencil-displaying males during courtship in attracting sex-pheromone-releasing females from several centimeters away can be duplicated by mixtures ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Nishida R,Baker TC,Roelofs WL

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00