The pheromone frontalin and its dual function in the invasive bark beetle Dendroctonus valens

Chemical Senses

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 485-495

  Liu, Zhudong ^a   Xu, Bingbing ^a   Miao, Zhenwang ^b   Sun, Jianghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b Forest Diseases and Insect Pests Control Station of Shanxi Province   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation pheromone; Bark beetle Dendroctonus valens; Dual function; ecological adaptation; Frontalin; gaschromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS); Olfactory assay; Sex pheromone

Indexed keywords

3 CARENE; FRONTALIN; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROCTONUS VALENS; FEMALE; HOST RESISTANCE; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS VALENS; SCOLYTINAE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; FEMALE; MALE;

EID: 84880034123     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjt019     Document Type: Article

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