Change in reductase activity is responsible for senescent decline in sex pheromone titre in the lightbrown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1093-1100

  Foster, Stephen P ^a   Greenwood, David R ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fatty acid metabolism; Lepidoptera; Pheromone biosynthesis; Tortricidae

Indexed keywords

11 TETRADECENOIC ACID; 11 TETRADECENYL ACETIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID ESTER; MYRISTIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; MOTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SENESCENCE;

EID: 0031280503     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(97)00081-4     Document Type: Article

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