Effects of the essential oil constituent thymol and other neuroactive chemicals on flight motor activity and wing beat frequency in the blowfly Phaenicia sericata

Pest Management Science

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 277-289

  Waliwitiya, Ranil ^a   Belton, Peter ^a   Nicholson, Russell A ^a   Lowenberger, Carl A ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flight motor activity; GABA; Thymol; Wing beat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ESSENTIAL OIL; INSECTICIDE; NEUROTOXIN; THYMOL;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CHEMICAL CONTROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLIGHT; FLY; MUSCLE; WING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; FLY; FLYING; FORELIMB; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INSECTICIDES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLES; NEUROTOXINS; OILS, VOLATILE; THYMOL; WING;

CALLIPHORIDAE; HEXAPODA; LUCILIA SERICATA;

EID: 76749147471     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1871     Document Type: Article

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