Polyene hydrocarbons and epoxides: A second major class of lepidopteran sex attractant pheromones

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2000, Pages 575-604

  Millar, Jocelyn G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Enantiomeric antagonist; Enantiomeric synergist; Geometridae; Noctuidae; Pheromone synthesis

Indexed keywords

EPOXIDE; HYDROCARBON; POLYENE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMALS; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; HYDROCARBONS; LEPIDOPTERA; POLYENES; SEX ATTRACTANTS;

ANIMALIA; ARCTIIDAE; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIIDAE; MACROLEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 0034083923     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.45.1.575     Document Type: Article

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