An Oral Male Courtship Pheromone Terminates the Response of Nasonia vitripennis Females to the Male-Produced Sex Attractant

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-62

  Ruther, Joachim ^a   Hammerl, Theresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral plasticity; Ethyl linolenate; Ethyl linoleate; Ethyl oleate; Hymenoptera; Nasonia vitripennis; Pteromalidae; Sex pheromone

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; DECISION MAKING; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; MOUTH; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME; WASP;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; MOUTH; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS; WASPS;

EID: 84895076709     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: 15731561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-013-0372-2     Document Type: Article

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