Fatty acid amides, previously identified in caterpillars, found in the cricket Teleogryllus taiwanemma and fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster larvae

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1376-1381

  Yoshinaga, Naoko ^a   Aboshi, Takako ^a   Ishikawa, Chihiro ^a   Fukui, Masao ^a   Shimoda, Masami ^b   Nishida, Ritsuo ^a   Lait, Cameron G ^c   Tumlinson, James H ^c   Mori, Naoki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Elicitors; Fatty acid amides; Larvae; LCMS IT TOF; Lepidoptera; Teleogryllus; Volicitin

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; FATTY ACID;

ATTRACTANT; CATERPILLAR; DETECTION METHOD; FATTY ACID; FLY; LARVA; PARASITOID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GRYLLIDAE; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FATTY ACIDS; GRYLLIDAE; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; TELEOGRYLLUS; TELEOGRYLLUS EMMA; TELEOGRYLLUS TAIWANEMMA;

EID: 34347383850     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-007-9321-2     Document Type: Article

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