Sex pheromone reception in the scarab beetle phyllophaga anxia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 100-102

  Ochieng, Samuel A ^a   Robbins, P S ^b   Roelofs, W L ^b   Baker, T C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

L isoleucine methyl ester; L valine methyl ester; Phyllophaga anxia; Sex pheromone; Single cell recording

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CHEMORECEPTION; SEX PHEROMONE;

COLEOPTERA; PHYLLOPHAGA ANXIA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 12144268734     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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