TY - JOUR
T1 - Antagonistic effect of (Z)-11-hexadecen-1-ol on the pheromone-mediated flight of Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
AU - Quero, Carmen
AU - Baker, Thomas C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This is Journal Paper No. 18442 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, Project No. 3498, and supported by Hatch Act and State of Iowa funds. Thanks are extended to J. Harris for maintaining and rearing the moth colony. We also thank the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture for a postdoctoral fellowship to C.Q. This research was also supported by Grant 9702521 from the USDA NRI program to T.C.B.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Flight-tunnel experiments were conducted using Helicoverpa zea males to determine whether or not (Z)-11-hexadecen-1-ol (Z11-16:OH), a compound emitted by another heliothine moth species, Heliothis subflexa, is a behavioral antagonist when admixed with the two-component pheromone blend of H. zea. Males were less likely to fly upwind all the way to the source when 0.3% Z11-16:OH was present in the blend. Even 0.1% Z11-16:OH caused differences in the flight behavior of H. zea males; they steered more off the windline than males responding to the pheromone blend alone, resulting in more oblique track angles. Thus Z11-16:OH appears to act antagonistically, along with another compound, (Z)-11-hexadecen-1-ol acetate (Z11-16:Ac), when it is added to the H. zea pheromone blend.
AB - Flight-tunnel experiments were conducted using Helicoverpa zea males to determine whether or not (Z)-11-hexadecen-1-ol (Z11-16:OH), a compound emitted by another heliothine moth species, Heliothis subflexa, is a behavioral antagonist when admixed with the two-component pheromone blend of H. zea. Males were less likely to fly upwind all the way to the source when 0.3% Z11-16:OH was present in the blend. Even 0.1% Z11-16:OH caused differences in the flight behavior of H. zea males; they steered more off the windline than males responding to the pheromone blend alone, resulting in more oblique track angles. Thus Z11-16:OH appears to act antagonistically, along with another compound, (Z)-11-hexadecen-1-ol acetate (Z11-16:Ac), when it is added to the H. zea pheromone blend.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1020935905506
DO - 10.1023/A:1020935905506
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033497776
SN - 0892-7553
VL - 12
SP - 701
EP - 710
JO - Journal of Insect Behavior
JF - Journal of Insect Behavior
IS - 5
ER -