Attractiveness of female

Attraction of female fathead minnows, Pimephaks promelas, to chemical stimuli from breeding mzles. Journal of ChemicalEcology 18,1269-1284. 

Merkx, J., Slob, A. K., van der Werff, J. J., and ten Bosch, J. J. (1988). Vaginal bacterial flora partially determines sexual attractivity of female rats. Physiology and Behavior44,147-149. 

Attraction of females mediated by compounds released from scent brushes or coremata of males has been documented in other moths, including E. acrea and... 

Baker, T. C., Nishida, R. and Roelofs, W. L. (1981). Close-range attraction of female oriental fruit moths to herbal scent of male hairpencils. Science 214 1359-1361. 

Millar, J. G., Rice, R. E., Steffan, S. A., Daane, . M., Cullen, E. and Zalom, F. G. (2001). Attraction of female digger wasps, Astata occidentalis Cresson (Hymenoptera Sphecidae) to the sex pheromone of the stink bug Thyanta pallidovirens (Hemiptera Pentatomidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 77 244-248. 

The American warble fly, Dermatobia hominis, is a species that attacks humans. Adults produce mainly n-saturated alkanes and various mono- and dimethylalkanes with 21 11 carbon atoms. Females produce more n-tricosane and n-pentacosane than males, which produce more CHCs with at least 29 carbon atoms. Olfactometer tests show a reciprocal attraction of females and males to the extract of the other sex, and suggest that CHCs are used for sexual discrimination (Gomes and Trigo, 2008). 

Among insect pheromones a great number of mono- and polyolefinic compounds are found a lot of them can be obtained by the Wittig reaction. Especially the syntheses of sex attractants of female butterflies and moths, which are mostly mono- and bisunsaturated alcohols, acetates or aldehydes 168), offer a broad field for the application of the Wittig reaction and have stimulated the development of many new stereoselective variants. Thus, the methods of salt-free Wittig reactions (Chapter 2) like the sodium amide method11 31 32, the silazide technique33, potassium in HMPA 34,35 or the use of dipolar aprotic solvents like dimethyl formamide 169>, dimethyl sulfoxide 51,170) or hexamethylphosphoric triamide 51 170) were often used. 

Landolt, P.J. and Heath, R.R. (1990) Attraction of female cabbage looper moths (Lep-idoptera Noctuidae) to male-produced sex pheromone. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 82, 520-525. 

Adolph Butenandt, who shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry for isolation and structure proofe of human sex hormones, was intrigued by the highly specific attraction of female moths for male moths at great... 

Ninomiya, K. and Brown, R.E. (1995). Preputial glands of MHC-congenic mice influence the individual odors of males and the attraction of females to these odors. Physiol. Behav. 5 191—194. 

One of the most troublesome pests in Brazilian coffee plantations is the Coffee leaf miner moth Leucoptera cojfeella) (Fig. 8.81). In 1988, Wittko Francke recognised that the main component of the sex attractant of females is 5,9-di-methylpentadecane. [188]... 

The primer pheromone (for definition see page 2) of sexually mature females increases the plasma testosterone level of male mice 329), raises the basal levels of plasma corticosteroids in individually housed females as well as in virgin female mice and influences the attractiveness of female rats to sexually experienced males 280). 

TOWARDS ASSESSING THE ATTRACTION OF FEMALE STUDENTS INTO E T... 

Baker, T.C., R. Nishida, and W. Roelofs Close-range Attraction of Female Oriental Fruit Moths to Herbal Scent of Male Hairpencils. Science 214,1359 (1981). 

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