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Science 3 August 1984:
Vol. 225. no. 4661, pp. 531 - 533
DOI: 10.1126/science.225.4661.531
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Brain Factor Control of Sex Pheromone Production in the Female Corn Earworm Moth

ASHOK K. RAINA 1 and JEROME A. KLUN 2

1 Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
2 Organic Chemical Synthesis Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Services, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Maryland 20705

Sex pheromone production in the female corn earworm moth Heliothis zea is controlled by a hormonal substance produced in the female's brain. It is present in the brain in scotophase as well as photophase, but it is released into the hemolymph to stimulate pheromone production only in the scotophase. The stimulatory activity was also detected in the brains of male corn earworm moths and of other moths.

Submitted on January 26, 1984
Accepted on May 29, 1984


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