Pheromone production in bark beetles

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 699-712

  Blomquist, Gary J ^a   Figueroa Teran, Rubi ^a   Aw, Mory ^a   Song, Minmin ^a   Gorzalski, Andrew ^a   Abbott, Nicole L ^a   Chang, Eric ^a   Tittiger, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Ips pini; Ipsdienol; Microarrays; Pheromone production

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; BEETLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTORY; MALE; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; PHEROMONES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; IPS; IPS CONFUSUS; IPS DUPLICATUS; IPS PARACONFUSUS; IPS PINI; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 77956995081     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.07.013     Document Type: Review

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