The role of 2,6-dichlorophenol as sex pheromone of the tropical horse tick Anocentor nitens (Acari: Ixodidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 223-230

  Borges, Lígia M F ^a   Eiras, Álvaro Eduardo ^b   Ferri, Pedro Henrique ^a   Côrtes Lôbo, Ana Cristina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

2,6 Dichlorophenol; Anocentor nitens; Olfactometer; Sex pheromones

Indexed keywords

2,6 DICHLOROPHENOL; 2,6-DICHLOROPHENOL; CHLOROPHENOL; SEX PHEROMONE;

PHEROMONE; SEX HORMONE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORSE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TICK;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPHENOLS; FEMALE; HORSES; IXODIDAE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODORS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ANOCENTOR NITENS; EQUUS CABALLUS; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0036967911     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021620215416     Document Type: Article

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