Female sex pheromone and male behavioral responses of the bombycid moth trilocha varians: Comparison with those of the domesticated silkmoth bombyx mori

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 207-215

  Daimon, Takaaki ^a,e   Fujii, Takeshi ^a   Yago, Masaya ^b   Hsu, Yu Feng ^c   Nakajima, Yumiko ^d   Fujii, Tsuguru ^a   Katsuma, Susumu ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a   Shimada, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombycidae; Bombykal; Bombykol; Bombykyl acetate; Pheromone communication system; Silkworm

Indexed keywords

ALKADIENE; BOMBYKAL; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANTAGONISM; ANTENNA; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOTH; SEX PHEROMONE; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SILKWORM;

ALKADIENES; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BOMBYX; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MOTHS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

BOMBYCIDAE; BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84863725260     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0887-3     Document Type: Article

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