Toxicity of nitro compounds fromLotus pedunculatus to grass grub (Costelytra zealandica) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).

abstract：:The onion fly Delia antiqua is a specialist herbivore attacking only onions and closely related Allium species. n-Dipropyl disulfide (Pr2S2) has long been known to be attractive to onion flies in the laboratory and in the field. However, the insect's response is highly variable. Using behavioral bioassays we found tha...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Romeis J,Ebbinghaus D,Scherkenbeck J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racemicezo-brevicomin, racemic frontalin, and myrcene were released at two proportions (5∶1∶400 and 1∶1∶1), each at three levels (1 ×, 10 ×, and 100 ×) in a ponderosa pine forest in central California. The 5∶1∶400 mix was based on an estimate of the relative amounts released from a ponderosa pine under attack by the w...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Tilden PE,Bedard WD

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacophagy of methyl eugenol (ME)--a highly potent male attractant, by Bactrocera papayae results in the hydroxylation of ME to sex pheromonal components, 2-ally-4,5-dimethoxyphenol (DMP) and (E)-coniferyl alcohol (CF). These compounds, which are also male attractants, are then sequestered and stored in the rectal ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hee AK,Tan KH

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a typical class of plant secondary metabolites that are constitutively produced as part of the plant's chemical defense. While roots are a well-established site of pyrrolizidine alkaloid biosynthesis, comfrey plants (Symphytum officinale; Boraginaceae) have been shown to additionally ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Stegemann T,Kruse LH,Brütt M,Ober D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral bioassays have shown that volatile oviposition-deterring chemicals are present in the frass of Ostrinia zealis, O. furnacalis, O. scapulalis, and O. latipennis larvae fed on an artificial diet. These chemicals were extractable with acetone, and could be partitioned into a polar lipid fraction. This fraction...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Li G,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein-precipitating capacities of tanniferous extracts from immature and mature leaves of threeShorea spp. (Dipterocarpaceae) seedlings were measured by an adaptation of Goldstein and Swain's β-glucosidase precipitation assay. Protein precipitation by the extracts was not correlated with total phenolics (Folin-D...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Becker P,Martin JS

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(Z)-5-Tetradecenyl acetate and tetradecyl acetate were identified as sex pheromone components of an unnamedPlanotortrix leafroller moth species found onAvicennia resinifera (mangrove). An equal mixture of the two compounds used as bait gave field trap catches at least as good as those baited with caged virgin females....

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Foster SP,Clearwater JR,Roelofs WL

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cuticular hydrocarbons play a significant role in the regulation of cuticular permeability and also in the chemical communication of insects. In the parasitoid Lariophagus distinguendus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), male courtship behavior is mediated by a female-produced sex pheromone. Previous studies have shown that...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Steiner S,Mumm R,Ruther J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the searching behavior of two acarine predators,Amblyseius fallacis andPhytoseiulus macropilis, for prey,Tetranychus urticae, is affected by the following stimuli: (1) prey silk and associated feces, whose combined physical and chemical properties elicit reduction in the rate of predator movements and lo...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hislop RG,Prokopy RJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three allelochemicals from rye or its breakdown products were evaluated for activity on garden cress (Lepidum sativum L.), barnyardgrass [Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv.], cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), and snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). 2,4-Dihydroxy-1,4(2H)-benzoxazin-3-one (DIBOA), 2(3H)-benzoxazolinone (BOA...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Chase WR,Nair MG,Putnam AR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactometer bioassays showed that odors from mature Thyanta perditor males attracted females but not males. Furthermore, odors from females did not attract either sex, indicating that like other phytophagous pentatomid bugs, the males produce a sex pheromone. Attraction appeared to peak in late afternoon to evening. ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Moraes MC,Millar JG,Laumann RA,Sujii ER,Pires CS,Borges M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of phenolic secondary metabolites in the leaves of four west African rain-forest plants,Acacia pennata, Cynometra leonensis, Diopyros thomasii, andTrema guineensis, were correlated with incident light intensity at both the inter- and intraindividual level. Enhanced phenolic levels under high light intensity app...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Mole S,Ross JA,Waterman PG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many parasitic wasps are attracted to volatiles that are released by plants when attacked by potential hosts. The attractiveness of these semiochemicals from damaged plants has been demonstrated in many tritrophic systems, but the physiological mechanisms underlying the insect responses are poorly understood. We recor...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Gouinguené S,Pickett JA,Wadhams LJ,Birkett MA,Turlings TC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation pheromones were isolated fromCryptolestes pusillus (Schönherr), a coleopteran pest of stored products. Porapak Q-captured beetle and frass volatiles were fractionated by preparative gas-liquid chromatography. The fractions were bioassayed with an arena olfactometer and/or with a two-choice, pitfall olfacto...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Millar JG,Pierce HD Jr,Pierce AM,Oehlschlager AC,Borden JH,Barak AV

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses ofRhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae) flies to host fruit visual stimuli (apples or models of apples) and chemical stimuli (synthetic apple volatile blend) were studied in semidwarf field-caged apple trees. Three different fruit or model densities (1, 4, or 16 fruit or models/ tree) and two o...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Aluja M,Prokopy RJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the volatile compounds derived from cephalic glands of the fire beeTrigona (Oxytrigona) tataira by GC-MS was undertaken. The following compounds were readily identified: hydrocarbons:n-C11H24,n-C13H28,n-C14H30,n-C15H32,n-C17H36,n-C23H48,n-C15H30,n-C17H34,n-C21 H42, andn-C23H46; carboxylic acids: palmitic a...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Bian Z,Fales HM,Blum MS,Jones TH,Rinderer TE,Howard DF

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant defensive compounds may be a cost rather than a benefit when plants are attacked by specialist insects that may overcome chemical barriers by strategies such as sequestering plant compounds. Plants may respond to specialist herbivores by compensatory growth rather than chemical defense. To explore the use of def...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Arab A,Trigo JR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a specialist on the reproductive structures of Pastinaca sativa and species in the related genus Heracleum, the parsnip webworm (Depressaria pastinacella) routinely encounters a distinctive suite of phytochemicals in hostplant tissues. Little is known, however, about the detoxification mechanisms upon which this sp...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Zangerl AR,Liao LH,Jogesh T,Berenbaum MR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication during tandem running inPachycondyla obscuricornis is chemically mediated by a pheromone produced in the pygidial gland, which is composed of a cluster of gland cells and an associated reservoir located beween the 6th and 7th tergites of the gaster. The secretion of the gland appears to be transferred to...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Traniello JF,Hölldobler B

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three different methods for the culture of rumen microorganisms (Hungate's technique, the Hohenheim in vitro gas production method, and the semicontinuous rumen simulation technique) were employed to study the influence of various alkaloids (sparteine, lupanine, cytisine, atropine, quinidine, lobeline, harmaline, arec...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Aguiar R,Wink M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The click beetle species Agriotes acuminatus is distributed in open deciduous forests throughout a large area in Europe. In order to identify its sex pheromone, gland extracts of female beetles were investigated by using GC/MS. Neryl butanoate and 2,6-dimethyl-(Z,E)-2,6-octadien-1,8-diol dihexanoate, in a ratio of app...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Tolasch T,von Fragstein M,Steidle JL

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactory discrimination ability in a fruit-eating bat,Carollia perspicillata, was investigated. In a food-rewarded flight training procedure, four animals were taught to choose one of two odors simultaneously presented in a three-choice apparatus.Carollia chose the odor of ripe banana over that of unripe banana i...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Laska M

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid phase microextraction (SPME) has become a common technique for volatile sampling due to its ease of use and limited technical requirements. The solvent-free nature of SPME is also exceptionally attractive for gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analysis. To ensure efficient transfer of the sample to the...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Gaffke AM,Alborn HT

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we compared the effects of several preservation methods on the secondary phenolics of the mature leaves of purple willow (Salix purpurea L., salicaceae) with results obtained with fresh leaf analyses. Conventional freeze-drying, in which the leaves were first frozen with liquid nitrogen and then placed ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Julkunen-Tiitto R,Sorsa S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After an extensive examination of the release rates and blend ratios of pheromonal components emitted by field-collected femalePectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), we find no evidence of resistance to pheromones applied to cotton fields to disrupt mating. Females from fields with 3-5 years of exposure to disruptant ph...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Haynes KF,Gaston LK,Pope MM,Baker TC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf volatiles convey information about a plant to other organisms in their proximity. Despite increasing interest in understanding the relevance of volatile emissions for particular ecological interactions, there has been relatively little effort to assess generally what information volatile profiles transmit. We sur...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Pearse IS,Gee WS,Beck JJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Males of the cerambycid beetle Xylotrechus pyrrhoderus release a mixture of (S)-2-hydroxy-3-octanone [(S)-1] and (2S,3S)-2,3-octanediol [(2S,3S)-2] as a sex pheromone that attracts conspecific females. The chemical structures of these pheromone components include a common motif and are assumed to be biosynthetically r...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Iwabuchi K,Arakawa M,Kiyota R,Hoshino K,Ando T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metapleural gland is exclusive to ants, and unusual among exocrine glands in having no mechanism for closure and retention of secretion. As yet, no clear conclusion has been reached as to the function of metapleural gland secretion. Metapleural gland secretions were investigated for fungus-growing ants representin...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Vieira AS,Morgan ED,Drijfhout FP,Camargo-Mathias MI

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast spectrum of inducible plant defenses can have direct negative effects on herbivores, or indirect effects, for instance in the form of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) that attract natural enemies. Various arthropods have evolved ways to suppress plant defenses. To test whether this is the case for ca...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： De Lange ES,Laplanche D,Guo H,Xu W,Vlimant M,Erb M,Ton J,Turlings TCJ

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00