TY - JOUR
T1 - Chemical communication in heliothine moths. VII. Correlation between diminished responses to point-source plumes and single filaments similarly tainted with a behavioral antagonist
AU - Vickers, Neil J.
AU - Baker, Thomas C.
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Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Eric Meador for assistance with rearing of H. virescens. We thank Drs. Agenor Mafra-Neto and Julie Todd for assisting with the single-filament wind-tunnel studies. We thank Ms. Jennifer Peyser for assisting with wind-tunnel experimentation and performing flight track analyses, and Dr John Glendinning of the ARLDN, University of Arizona, for advice concerning the statistical procedures to be used to analyze the behavioral parameters. This work was supported by USDA/ NRICGP grant 92-37302-7636 to TCB.
PY - 1997/5
Y1 - 1997/5
N2 - Addition of (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate (Z11-16:Ac) into a normally attractive binary blend of Heliothis virescens pheromone components resulted in a suppression of upwind flight and source location by males. Male response was reduced even at the lowest dosages of Z11-16:Ac tested but upwind flight and source location were most clearly reduced when the loading of Z11-16:Ac reached 10% or more of the (Z)-11-hexadecenal (Z11-16:Ald) loading (the major component present in the binary blend). Similar patterns of suppression in response were noted when Z11-16:Ac was added to binary blends of pheromone components at both 10 and 100 μg loadings of Z11-16:Ald. Males in casting flight following upwind flight in a mechanically generated pulsed plume, responded to the interception of a subsequent, single binary-blend filament by making a toward-source upwind surge. Responses of males to a single filament that was tainted by a level of Z11-16:Ac that had allowed some reduced level of upwind flight and source location to occur in the previous plume experiments were diminished compared with their control counterparts. Analysis of the flight tracks revealed that the surges in response to single tainted filaments were stunted because males made fewer significant changes in course tingles steered, airspeeds generated, and in the tempo of counterturns executed.
AB - Addition of (Z)-11-hexadecenyl acetate (Z11-16:Ac) into a normally attractive binary blend of Heliothis virescens pheromone components resulted in a suppression of upwind flight and source location by males. Male response was reduced even at the lowest dosages of Z11-16:Ac tested but upwind flight and source location were most clearly reduced when the loading of Z11-16:Ac reached 10% or more of the (Z)-11-hexadecenal (Z11-16:Ald) loading (the major component present in the binary blend). Similar patterns of suppression in response were noted when Z11-16:Ac was added to binary blends of pheromone components at both 10 and 100 μg loadings of Z11-16:Ald. Males in casting flight following upwind flight in a mechanically generated pulsed plume, responded to the interception of a subsequent, single binary-blend filament by making a toward-source upwind surge. Responses of males to a single filament that was tainted by a level of Z11-16:Ac that had allowed some reduced level of upwind flight and source location to occur in the previous plume experiments were diminished compared with their control counterparts. Analysis of the flight tracks revealed that the surges in response to single tainted filaments were stunted because males made fewer significant changes in course tingles steered, airspeeds generated, and in the tempo of counterturns executed.
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U2 - 10.1007/s003590050069
DO - 10.1007/s003590050069
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030973727
SN - 0340-7594
VL - 180
SP - 523
EP - 536
JO - Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
JF - Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
IS - 5
ER -