Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 4 April 1975:
Vol. 188. no. 4183, pp. 59 - 63
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114341
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Science, Vol 188, Issue 4183, 59-63
Copyright © 1975 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

articles

Evidence for origin of insect sex pheromones: presence in food plants

LB Hendry, JK Wichmann, DM Hindenlang, RO Mumma, and ME Anderson

Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants. These agents vary in chemical composition in different plant species, which suggests that dietary factors may provide an evolutionary mechanism for diversification of certain insect species. A theoretical framework to explain this phenomenon is postulated on the basis of experiments with the oak leaf roller moth.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Reexamination of tetradecenyl acetates in oak leaf roller sex pheromone and in plants.
D. Hindenlang and J. Wichmann (1977)
Science 195, 86-89
   Abstract »    PDF »
Reinvestigation of oak leaf roller sex pheromone components and the hypothesis that they vary with diet.
Miller JR, T. Baker, R. Carde, and W. Roelofs (1976)
Science 192, 140-143
   Abstract »    PDF »
Insect phermones: diet related?.
L. Hendry (1976)
Science 192, 143-145
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)