Enantiomeric conservation of the male-produced sex pheromone facilitates monitoring of threatened European hermit beetles (Osmoderma spp.)

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 276-282

  Svensson, Glenn P ^a   Oleksa, Andrzej ^b   Gawroński, Robert ^c   Lassance, Jean Marc ^a   Larsson, Mattias C ^d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAZIMIERZ WIELKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Ostródzka 4/5 ^*  (Poland)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

decalactone; Chiral GC; Coleoptera; Field trapping; MtDNA analysis; Scarabaeidae

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOINDICATOR; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSPECIFIC; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MATE ATTRACTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NICHE OVERLAP; SEX PHEROMONE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CETONIINAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; OSMODERMA; OSMODERMA EREMITA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 73149113319     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00923.x     Document Type: Article

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