Identification of female sex pheromone in alfalfa blotch leafminer, Agromyza frontella (Rondani)(Diptera: Agromyzidae)

Yves Carriére; Jocelyn G. Millar; Jeremy N. McNeil; David Miller; E. W. Underbill

doi:10.1007/BF01018785

Identification of female sex pheromone in alfalfa blotch leafminer, Agromyza frontella (Rondani)(Diptera: Agromyzidae)

Yves Carriére, Jocelyn G. Millar, Jeremy N. McNeil, David Miller, E. W. Underbill

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Abstract

Gas chroinatography of hexane extracts of 3-day-old virgin A. frontella adults revealed a branched saturated hydrocarbon present only in females. This compound was isolated by argentation chromotography and preparative GC, identified by GC and GC-MS as 3,7-dimethylnonadecane, and subsequently synthesized. Three-day-old virgin females contained 54.1 ± 3.5 ng (± SEM;N = 48) of 3,7-dimethylnonadecane. Male cadavers do not elicit male courtship behavior, but when treated with ∼ 18 ng of 3,7-dimethylnonadecane they were as attractive as cadavers of 3-day-old virgin females. Black cotton knots were less attractive than male cadavers when treated with 3,7-dimethylnonadecane, but all bioassays indicated that this compound is an important semiochemical modulating male mating behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	947-956
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Chemical Ecology
Volume	14
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01018785
State	Published - Mar 1988

Keywords

3,7-dimethylnonadecane
Agromyza frontella
Agromyzidae
Alfalfa blotch leafminer
Diptera
female sex pheromone
male response
synthesis

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Biochemistry

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