Hybrid Sex Pheromones of the Hibiscus Flower-bud Borer, Rehimena surusalis.

abstract：:Castilleja (Scrophulariaceae) species of the western United States contain pyrrolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids. TheCastilleja obtain the alkaloids by root parasitism on host plants, withSenecio atratus andS. triangularis (Asteraceae) furnishing the pyrrolizidines, and quinolizidines being obtained fromLupinus sp...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Stermitz FR,Harris GH

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant secondary metabolites have an important role in defense responses against herbivores and pathogens, and as a chemical barrier to elevated levels of harmful air pollutants. This study involves the rapid chemical profiling of phenolic and diterpene resin acids in needles of two (ozone-tolerant and ozone-sensitive)...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Shadkami F,Helleur RJ,Cox RM

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:The nitidulid beetle Lobiopa insularis is an important pest of strawberry crops in the United States and Brazil. Both larvae and adults feed on ripe strawberries, causing 20-70% loss in production during serious infestations. Aiming at the development of efficient, clean, and highly specific pest management systems, s...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Moliterno AAC,Martins CBC,Szczerbowski D,Zawadneak MAC,Zarbin PHG

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genetically diverse strains of Trypanosoma cruzi were tested in vitro for susceptibility to the solanum-derived triglycoside alkaloids solasonine and solamargine. Cytolytic assays were performed on epimastigotes (EMs) and bloodstream form trypomastigotes (BSFs) lifecycle stages by using serial dilutions of each al...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hall CA,Hobby T,Cipollini M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrapedia diversipes and other Apidae (Anthophoridae) may be deceived by floral similarities between Malpighiaceae and Orchidaceae of the Oncidiinae subtribe. The latter do not usually exudate floral oils. Thus, visitors may pollinate the flowers in a deceit/food/pollination syndrome. We studied the chemical composit...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Reis MG,de Faria DA,dos Santos IA,Amaral Mdo C,Marsaioli AJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioassays were carried out to test extracts of roots and leaves ofPiqueria trinervia and solutions of piquerol A and B, in order to appraise their allelopathic potential. Leaves seem to have greater concentrations of inhibitory compounds than roots. Both piquerol compounds show strong biological activity, but piquerol...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： De La Parra MG,Anaya AL,Espinosa F,Jiménez M,Castillo R

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) utilize male-produced aggregation-sex pheromones that attract both sexes. However, the reasons why and the details of how this type of pheromone is used by cerambycids and other coleopteran species that utilize analogous male-produced pheromones remain unclea...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Collignon RM,Cale JA,McElfresh JS,Millar JG

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The silkworm Bombyx mori is an oligophagous insect that feeds mainly on mulberry leaves. The olfactory system of silkworm is a good model to study olfaction in Lepidoptera. Here, we carried out shotgun proteomic analysis and MS sequencing of the silkmoth antennae. A total of 364 proteins were detected, 77 were female ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Zhao Y,Li H,Miao X

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability (EICA) hypothesis posits that invasive plants in introduced habitats with reduced herbivore pressure will evolve reduced levels of costly resistance traits. In light of this hypothesis, we examined the constitutive and inducible expression of five chemical defense traits ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Cipollini D,Mbagwu J,Barto K,Hillstrom C,Enright S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardenolides are classically studied steroidal defenses in chemical ecology and plant-herbivore coevolution. Although milkweed plants (Asclepias spp.) produce up to 200 structurally different cardenolides, all compounds seemingly share the same well-characterized mode of action, inhibition of the ubiquitous Na+/K+ ATP...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Züst T,Petschenka G,Hastings AP,Agrawal AA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that menstrual cycle length and fertility are affected by a regular pattern of either: (1) intimate contact with men; or (2) contact with extracts from male axillary secretions; and (3) the axillary extracts of women. Experiments utilizing axillary extracts employed a controlled, double-bli...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Preti G,Cutler WB,Christensen CM,Lawley H,Huggins GR,Garcia CR

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：:The cucurbitacins are oxygenated tetracyclic triterpenoids produced as secondary plant compounds by nearly all genera of Cucurbitaceae. The very bitter and toxic cucurbitacins are effective semiochemicals acting ecologically as allomones to protect the Cucurbitaceae from attack by a variety of invertebrate and vertebr...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Metcalf RL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four species of Acridoidea were fed on wheat leaves with and without the condensed tannin, quebracho. In no case was it deleterious to survival and growth at levels below about 10% dry weight on the food. Similarly, consumption, digestibility, and utilization of food were unaffected at up to 10% dry weight. At higher ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Bernays EA,Chamberlain DJ,Leather EM

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was replicated at two locations in the mountains of central Utah. In 1997, ten uniform plants of tall larkspur (Delphinium barbeyi) in the early bud stage (40 cm in height) were selected at each site and clipped at 5 cm above soil level. In 1998, one stalk from each plant was harvested on a weekly basis; in...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Ralphs MH,Gardner DR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of arrival of the bark beetlesIps typographus andPityogenes chalcographus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) at traps baited with their synthetic pheromones was monitored with a portable fraction collector. Histograms of the natural arrival patterns of both species were nonrandom and clumped at shorter time scales ...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Byers JA

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical quality of forage may determine landscape use and habitat quality for some herbivorous species. However, studies that investigate the relationship between foliar chemistry and foraging choices in wild vertebrates are rare. Petauroides volans (the greater glider) is unique among Australian marsupial folivo...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Youngentob KN,Wallis IR,Lindenmayer DB,Wood JT,Pope ML,Foley WJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alfalfa seed chalcid (ASC),Bruchophagus roddi, is a monophagous pest of alfalfa that parasitizes developing seeds. To further understand the olfactory basis of host-plant recognition by ASCs, we recorded electroantennograms (EAGs) from females and males to 39 volatiles from both alfalfa and red clover. The chemore...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Light DM,Kamm JA,Buttery RG

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of male moth responses to pheromone blends may be constrained by a trade-off between two response traits: sensitivity and breadth of response. Population genetic simulations predict that if sensitivity and breadth of response are negatively correlated (i.e., a trade-off exists), then selection will favor...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Hemmann DJ,Allison JD,Haynes KF

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activity of essential oil (EO) from the Brazilian epazote (Chenopodium ambrosioides L.) was evaluated by the poison food assay at concentrations of 0.3%, 0.1%, and 0.05% with eight postharvest deteriorating fungi (Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus glaucus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus ochraceous, Collet...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Jardim CM,Jham GN,Dhingra OD,Freire MM

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Lichen secondary metabolites putatively protect lichens from a variety of environmental stress factors, but it is unknown whether these substances respond to air pollution. To assess such a possibility, the three major phenolics of two epiphytic lichen species with contrasting tolerance to chronic air pollution from M...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Valencia-Islas N,Zambrano A,Rojas JL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoreception in the adults of the freshwater prawnMacrobrachium rosenbergii was investigated under controlled laboratory conditions, using behavioral assays. Tests were carried out on groups, as well as on individuals, all at their intermolt stages of the molt cycle, and prestarved for three to four days. Of 28 diff...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Harpaz S,Kahan D,Galun R,Moore I

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect integument is covered by cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) which provide protection against environmental stresses, but are also used for communication. Here we review current knowledge on environmental and insect-internal factors which shape phenotypic plasticity of solitary living insects, especially herbivor...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Otte T,Hilker M,Geiselhardt S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experiments have been conducted at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, to determine the role of allelopathic (autotoxicity) effects of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) on the establishment of alfalfa. By means of correcting any soil fertility differences and protecting the alfalfa seedlings from fungal a...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Miller DA

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to assess the effect of parthenin--a sesquiterpene lactone from Parthenium hysterophorus--on the germination, growth, and some associated physiological changes in Ageratum conyzoides. The study reveals that germination and growth of A. conyzoides was severely reduced by parthenin in the concentr...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Singh HP,Batish DR,Kohli RK,Saxena DB,Arora V

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) are important cues for natural enemies to find their hosts. HIPVs are usually present as blends and the effects of combinations of individual components are less studied. Here, we investigated plant volatiles in a tritrophic system, comprising the parasitoid wasp Lytopylus ruf...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Liu CM,Matsuyama S,Kainoh Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volatile chemicals produced by plants mediate host location, mate-finding and oviposition behavior in insects. State-dependent response to plant cues allows for timing of foraging, mating and oviposition on ephemeral host plants or plant parts. Caloptilia fraxinella is a herbivorous specialist on the foliage of ash tr...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Lemmen-Lechelt JK,Wist TJ,Evenden ML

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroantennograms (EAGs) were recorded from male and female moths of two sympatric leaf folder species,Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Gue-née) andMarasmia patnalis Bradley (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) to 91 volatile chemicals of plant origin. Responses of both leaf folder species were similar to all compounds except to three...

journal_title：Journal of chemical ecology

authors： Ramachandran R,Khan ZR,Caballero P,Juliano BO

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00