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Southern pine beetle: Olfactory receptor and behavior discrimination of enantiomers of the attractant pheromone frontalin

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In laboratory and field bioassays, the response ofDendroctonus frontalis was significantly greater to the mixture of (1S, 5R)-(−)-frontalin andalpha-pinene than to (1R,5S)-(+)-frontalin andalpfa-pinene. Electro-physiological studies revealed that antennal olfactory receptor cells were significantly more responsive to (1S, 5R)-(−)-frontalin than to (1R, 5S)-(+)-frontalin. Both enantiomers stimulated the same olfactory cells which suggests that each cell possesses at least two types of enantiomer-specific acceptors.

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  1. J. V. Richerson

    Present address: Department of Biology, Sul Ross State University, 79830, Alpine, Texas

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  1. Department of Entomology Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, Texas

    T. L. Payne, J. V. Richerson & J. C. Dickens

  2. Department of Chemistry, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, 13210, Syracuse, New York

    J. R. West

  3. Department of Agricultural Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan

    K. Mori

  4. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, Georgia

    C. W. Berisford & M. S. Blum

  5. College of Forest & Recreation Resources, Clemson University, 29631, Clemson, South Carolina

    R. L. Hedden

  6. Forstzoologisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, 78 Freiburg, Germany

    J. P. Vité

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Texas Agricultural Experiment Station paper no. 14496. The work was funded in part by McIntire-Stennis project 1525 (TAES) and the USDA program entitled “The Expanded Southern Pine Beetle Research and Applications Program” through TAES-CSRS grant 680-15-10. The findings, opinions, and recommendations reported herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Payne, T.L., Richerson, J.V., Dickens, J.C. et al. Southern pine beetle: Olfactory receptor and behavior discrimination of enantiomers of the attractant pheromone frontalin. J Chem Ecol 8, 873–881 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00994788

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