Epicuticle Lipids Mediate Mate Recognition in Triatoma infestans

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 246-252

  Cocchiararo Bastias, Luciana María ^a   Mijailovsky, Sergio Javier ^a   Calderon Fernández, Gustavo Mario ^a   Figueiras, Alicia Nieves Lorenzo ^b   Juárez, M Patricia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOQUÍMICAS DE LA PLATA INIBIOLP   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas disease vectors; Contact sex pheromone; Fatty alcohols; Hemiptera; Hydrocarbons; Mating behavior; Reduviidae

Indexed keywords

BEHENYL ALCOHOL; FATTY ALCOHOL; HEXANE; HYDROCARBON; ICOSANOID;

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COPULATION; DISEASE VECTOR; INSECT; LIPID; MATE RECOGNITION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; TRIATOMA;

ANIMALS; EICOSANOIDS; FATTY ALCOHOLS; FEMALE; HEXANES; HYDROCARBONS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; TRIATOMA;

HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 79953077969     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-011-9927-2     Document Type: Article

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