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Science 14 August 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4509, pp. 763 - 764
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4509.763
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Antibiotic-Induced Inhibition of Pheromone Synthesis in a Bark Beetle

J. A. BYERS 1 and D. L. WOOD 1

1 Department of Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley 94720

Ingestion of diet containing streptomycin inhibited the conversion of myrcene, a host plant terpene, to the male-specific pheromones ipsenol and ipsdienol in 1ps paraconfusus. Synthesis of cis-verbenol, which is not a sex-specific pheromone, from the host plant terpene (–)-agr-pinene and other metabolites from these two terpenes was not inhibited by the antibiotic.

Submitted on March 13, 1981
Revised on May 11, 1981


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Bark Beetle Conversion of a Plant Compound to a Sex-Specific Inhibitor of Pheromone Attraction.
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