Functional consequences of sequence variation in the pheromone biosynthetic gene pgFAR for Ostrinia moths
- Jean-Marc Lassance, Marjorie A. Liénard, C. Löfstedt
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 13 February 2013
The reduction step is identified as a potential source of variation in pheromone signals in the moth genus Ostrinia and it is suggested that selection acting on particular mutations provides a mechanism allowing phersomone reductases to evolve new functional properties that may contribute to variation in the composition of phermone signals.
Present or Past Herbivory: A Screening of Volatiles Released from Brassica rapa Under Caterpillar Attacks as Attractants for the Solitary Parasitoid, Cotesia vestalis
- S. Kugimiya, T. Shimoda, J. Tabata, J. Takabayashi
- BiologyJournal of Chemical Ecology
- 20 May 2010
Results suggest that nitrile and sulfide compounds temporarily released from plants under attack by host larvae are potentially more effective attractants for this parasitoid than other VOCs that are continuously released by host-damaged plants.
Identification of a sex pheromone component of the Japanese mealybug, Planococcus kraunhiae (Kuwana)
- H. Sugie, M. Teshiba, S. Hiradate
- Biology
- 25 August 2008
A sex pheromone component of the Japanese mealybug, Planococcus kraunhiae, was isolated and identified and showed attraction activity to adult males of P. kraUNhiae in the field.
Male Killing and Incomplete Inheritance of a Novel Spiroplasma in the Moth Ostrinia zaguliaevi
- J. Tabata, Yuuki Hattori, D. Kageyama
- BiologyMicrobial Ecology
- 15 January 2011
A new case of Spiroplasma-induced male killing in a moth, Ostrinia zaguliaevi, showing that males were selectively killed, exclusively during late embryogenesis in all-female broods.
Heat-Shock-Induced Proteins fromMyxococcus xanthus
This is the first report to demonstrate that succinyl CoA synthetase, 30S ribosomal protein S6, and ATP synthase alpha subunit are heat shock inducible.
Variation in Courtship Ultrasounds of Three Ostrinia Moths with Different Sex Pheromones
- T. Takanashi, R. Nakano, N. Skals
- BiologyPLoS ONE
- 4 October 2010
The results suggest that concordant evolution in sexual signals such as courtship ultrasounds and sex pheromones occurs in moths, and that ultrasound and phersomone communications have diverged concordantly.
Synthesis and Characterization of 2,13- and 3,13-Octadecadienals for the Identification of the Sex Pheromone Secreted by a Clearwing Moth
- M. Islam, Masanobu Yamamoto, T. Ando
- ChemistryJournal of Chemical Ecology
- 28 July 2007
A pheromone extract of a sesiid moth was examined and it was confirmed that the octadecadienal tentatively identified by a previous GC-MS analysis did indeed have the 2E,13Z configuration, and field evaluation of four synthetic geometric isomers of the 2,13-dienal revealed specific attraction to a lure with the (2E, 13Z)-isomer as a main component.
A new approach for mealybug management: recruiting an indigenous, but ‘non‐natural’ enemy for biological control using an attractant
- M. Teshiba, H. Sugie, T. Tsutsumi, J. Tabata
- Biology
- 1 March 2012
It is demonstrated that CLB can recruit an indigenous, but ‘non‐natural’ enemy that does not typically attack P. kraunhiae under natural conditions, as well as a minor natural enemy, for biological control of this mealybug species.
A new class of mealybug pheromones: a hemiterpene ester in the sex pheromone of Crisicoccus matsumotoi
- J. Tabata, Yutaka Narai, Nobuo Sawamura, S. Hiradate, H. Sugie
- BiologyDie Naturwissenschaften
- 1 July 2012
This study isolated from the Matsumoto mealybug, Crisicoccus matsumotoi (Siraiwa), a pheromone with a completely different structure, identified as 3-methyl-3-butenyl 5-methylhexanoate, which is the first report of a hemiterpene mealybugs phersomone.
Sex pheromone production and perception in the mating disruption‐resistant strain of the smaller tea leafroller moth, Adoxophyes honmai
- J. Tabata, H. Noguchi, Y. Kainoh, F. Mochizuki, H. Sugie
- Biology
- 12 December 2006
Male response to the phersomone blend was markedly broadened after selection so that resistant males could locate a synthetic pheromone source even when it lacked a pheramone component that is normally necessary for attraction.
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