The Green Gut: Chlorophyll Degradation in the Gut of Spodoptera littoralis.

abstract：:Splitless capillary gas chromatography indicated the presence of (Z)- and (E)-11-tetradecenyl acetate and (Z)-11-tetradecenyl alcohol in the washes of female abdominal tips of the blackheaded fireworm,Rhopobota naevana (Hubner). Gas chromatography combined with mass spectroscopy confirmed the presence of tetradecenyl ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Slessor KN,Raine J,King GG,Clements SJ,Allan SA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and chemical content analysis of Hagen's glands of the braconid waspsBiosteres longicaudatus, B. tryoni, andB. arisanus were shown to be useful taxonomic markers.B. longicaudatus glands contain two components tentatively identified as (3aα,5β,6aα)-5-butyltetrahydro-furo[3,2-b]furan-2(3H)-one and a corre...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Williams HJ,Wong M,Wharton RA,Vinson SB

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the plume structure of a piezo-electric sprayer system, set up to release ethanol in a wind tunnel, using a fast response mini-photoionizaton detector. We recorded the plume structure of four different piezo-sprayer configurations: the sprayer alone; with a 1.6-mm steel mesh shield; with a 3.2-mm steel...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Girling RD,Cardé RT

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of volatile infochemicals emitted by feces of larvae in the host-searching behavior of the parasitoidCotesia rubecula was evaluated during single- and dual-choice tests inside a wind tunnel. The following treatments were tested: feces produced by second and fourth instars ofPieris rapae (preferred host), seco...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Agelopoulos NG,Dicke M,Posthumus MA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a detailed analysis of feeding behavior to investigate the role of solanaceous alkaloids as sensory-based feeding deterrents for the Colorado potato beetle,Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say). Experiments were conducted on three geographic, host-adapted populations of beetles to determine whether evolutionary chan...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Harrison GD,Mitchell BK

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypericin, an anthrone dimer inHypericum perforatum (Guttiferae), is shown for the first time to be phototoxic to generalist lepidopteran larvae; survivorship was reduced and development prolonged forHeliothis zea (Noctuidae) andPlatynota flavedana (Tortricidae) that consumed hypericin diets in the presence of light. ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Sandberg SL,Berenbaum MR

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), a crucifer-specialist pest, has been documented to employ glucosinolates as host recognition cues for oviposition. Through the use of mutant Arabidopsis thaliana plants, we investigated the role of specific classes of glucosinolates in the signaling of oviposition by P. xylo...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Sun JY,Sønderby IE,Halkier BA,Jander G,de Vos M

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Although several studies have elucidated the role of plant epicuticular waxes in host recognition and oviposition by herbivorous insects, there is little known about this subject in Chrysomelidae. In the present study, chemical cues for host recognition behavior and oviposition by the monophagous chrysomelid species C...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Müller C,Hilker M

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:TheNp mutant of pea (Pisum sativum L.) is characterized by two physiological responses: growth of callus under pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum L., Coleoptera: Bruchidae) oviposition on pods, and formation of neoplastic callus on pods of indoor-grown plants. Although these two responses are conditioned byNp, they are anato...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Doss RP,Proebsting WM,Potter SW,Clement SL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) have specialized feeding habits, and commonly colonize only one or a few closely related host genera in their geographical ranges. The red turpentine beetle, Dendroctonus valens LeConte, has a broad geographic distribution in North America and exploits volatile cues...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Erbilgin N,Mori SR,Sun JH,Stein JD,Owen DR,Merrill LD,Bolaños RC,Raffa KF,Montiel TM,Wood DL,Gillette NE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inexpensive, silent, maintenance-free suction/adsorption system is described for efficiently collecting submicrogram quantities of odors over a wide range of volatilities under field conditions. The samples can later be submitted to gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analyses. An example is given with odors sam...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Cane JH,Jonsson T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop domestication and selective breeding have altered plant defense mechanisms, influencing insect-plant interactions. A reduction in plant resistance/tolerance against herbivory is generally expected in domesticated species, however, limited efforts have been made to compare inducibility of plant defenses between wi...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Paudel S,Lin PA,Foolad MR,Ali JG,Rajotte EG,Felton GW

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of experiments designed to clarify the behavioral function of the odor of the secretion from the inguinal glands of rabbits,Oryctolagus cuniculus, are presented. Members of groups of female rabbits were smeared with odoriferous materials, and the behavior of their penmates towards them was recorded. Eight ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hesterman ER,Mykytowycz R

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of insects are known to produce and secrete benzoquinone derivatives. These compounds are usually defined as "defense chemicals." However, in many cases, it has not been determined what the chemicals are meant to defend against. Tribolium beetles produce up to three benzoquinones, but their specific funct...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Yezerski A,Ciccone C,Rozitski J,Volingavage B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dufour's gland of the parasitic waspNemeritis (= Venturia) canescens (Grav.) was shown by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to contain a mixture of C21, C23, and C25 saturated and monounsaturated hydrocarbons. The main component (62%) was (Z)-10-tricosene. The biological activity of the components is discus...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Mudd A,Fisher RC,Smith MC

更新日期：1982-07-01 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：:Soluble sugars are essential nutrients generally perceived as phagostimulants to most insects studied. However, tannins are known as digestibility reducers, hence deleterious to caterpillar development, and as deterrents as well. Previous work demonstrated that larvae of the polyphagous oblique-banded leafroller, Chor...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Panzuto M,Mauffette Y,Alber PJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize, a genetically diverse crop, is the domesticated descendent of its wild ancestor, teosinte. Recently, we have shown that certain maize landraces possess a valuable indirect defense trait not present in commercial hybrids. Plants of these landraces release herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) that attract bo...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Mutyambai DM,Bruce TJ,Midega CA,Woodcock CM,Caulfield JC,Van Den Berg J,Pickett JA,Khan ZR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of using the synthetic sex pheromone, disparlure, as a mating confusant of the nun moth (Lymantria monacha L.) was investigated on wild populations occurring in outbreak proportions in Poland and in low density in Czechoslovakia. The size of experimental plots ranged from 1 to 12 hectares. The amounts ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Zďárek J,Vrkoč J,Hochmut R,Kolk A

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attraction of (2E,4E,6R,10R)-4,6,10,12-tetramethyl-2,4-tridecadien-7-one [1; (6R,10R)-matsuone] and its antipode [2; (6S,10S)-matsuone] toMatsucoccus thunbergianae males was studied in the laboratory and in the field. They showed stronger response to1. In laboratory bioassays, the threshold concentrations for male att...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Park SC,Wi AJ,Kim HS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of glandular trichomes from Medicago sativa were tested for their ability to disrupt the settling behavior of the potato leafhopper, Empoasca fabae. Erect and procumbent glandular trichomes were mechanically isolated from stem sections of resistant genotype "G98A," and nonglandular trichomes were collected fr...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Ranger CM,Backus EA,Winter RE,Rottinghaus GE,Ellersieck MR,Johnson DW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of extracellular fatty acids in the interference between two algae, Chlorella vulgaris Beijerink and Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata (Korshikov) Hindak, was assessed by the co-cultivation of the two selected strains, as well as by the chemical analysis of exudates from the culture media of single strain cultu...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： DellaGreca M,Zarrelli A,Fergola P,Cerasuolo M,Pollio A,Pinto G

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boron (B) deficiency is a common micronutrient deficiency that has been reported to affect the phenolic metabolism of plants. Thus, it may play a role in defense against herbivorous animals. However, the role of B in a plant's resistance to herbivores has not received any particular attention from researchers. In this...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Ruuhola T,Leppänen T,Julkunen-Tiitto R,Rantala MJ,Lehto T

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of the sawtoothed grain beetle,Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.), and the merchant grain beetle,O. mercator (Fauvel), to synthetic racemic and chiral macrolide aggregation pheromones was assessed in pitfall olfactometers.O.mercator utilizes theR enantiomers of (Z)-3-dodecen-11-olide and (Z,Z)-3,6-dodecadien-...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Pierce AM,Pierce HD Jr,Oehlschlager AC,Czyzewska E,Borden JH

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have alerted us to the potential for conflicts between pathogen- and herbivore-induced plant defenses. The lack of studies on the induced chemical changes that simultaneous insect and pathogen attacks have on the host plant has become apparent. In the present study, we found that pepper plant volatile p...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Cardoza YJ,Tumlinson JH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urine of male house mice, Mus musculus, is known to have primer pheromone effects on the reproductive physiology of female mice. Urine-mediated releaser pheromone effects that trigger certain behavioral responses are much less understood, and no field studies have investigated whether urine deposits by male or female ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Musso AE,Gries R,Zhai H,Takács S,Gries G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Colorado potato beetle feeds only on glycoalkaloid-laden solanaceous plants, appears to be toxic to predators, and has aposematic coloration, suggesting the beetle may sequester alkaloids from its host plants. This study tested 4th instars and adults, as well as isolated hemolymph and excrement, to determine if th...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Armer CA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of ATP synthesis, proton uptake, and electron transport (basal, phosphorylating, and uncoupled) from water to methylviologen by zaluzanin C indicates that it acts as an electron transport inhibitor. Uncoupled photosystem I electron transport rate was not affected by zaluzanin C; however, uncoupled photo...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Lotina-Hennsen B,Bernal-Morales E,Roo De Vivar A,Perez-C AL,Castro-R A,Aguilar-Martinez M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00