Very long-chain methyl-branched alcohols and their acetate esters in the internal lipids of Lepidopteran pupae: Cochylis hospes, Diatraea grandiosella, Homoeosoma electellum, Heliothis virescens and Helicoverpa zea

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 243-256

  Nelson, Dennis R ^a   Fatland, Charlotte L ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acetate esters; aldehydes; biosynthesis; hydrocarbons; Lepidoptera; long chain alcohols; methyl branched alcohols; methyl branched alkanes; pupae; wax esters

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID METABOLISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030890506     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(96)00242-8     Document Type: Article

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