Blatta

A number of reports in the 1970s and 1980s demonstrated that periplanone-B was highly active to male B. orientalis in both behavioral and EAG assays. Periplanone-B in slow-release formulations also attracted Blatta males to traps in infested swine farms (C. Schal, unpublished data). However, it remains unclear... 

Abed, D., Brossut, R. and Farine, J.-P. (1993a). Evidence for sex pheromones produced by males and females in Blatta orientalis (Dictyoptera Blattidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 19 2831-2853. 

Barth, R. H. (1970). The mating behavior of Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus) and Blatta orientalis Linnaeus (Blattaria, Blattinae), with notes on 3 additional species of... 

Simon, D. and Barth, R. H. (1977a). Sexual behavior in the cockroach genera Periplaneta and Blatta. II. Sex pheromones and behavioral responses. Journal of Comparative Ethology 44 162-177. 

Takahashi, S., Takegawa, H., Takabayashi, J., Abdullah, M., Fatimah, A. S. and Mohamed, M. (1988a). Sex pheromone activity of synthetic periplanone-B in male cockroaches of genera Periplaneta and Blatta. Journal of Pesticide Science 13 125-127. 

Insects 109 110 entire insect—Acyrthosiphum pisurn 163, Megoura vicia 118, Pieris brassicae 60, Diataraxia oleracea 524, Tribolium castaneum 3560, Phaedon cochleariae 2820, Dysdercus fasciatus 3920, Blatta orientalis 280, B. germanica 1180, Musca do-mestica 1100. Crop fluid of Locusta migratoria 112,500. 

Tartivita and Jackson (1970) compared the CHCs of Blatta orientalis, another household pest in the Blattidae family, with those of Leucophaea maderae in the Blaberidae family. Findings showed that the major hydrocarbons in the surface lipids of both cockroaches were -heptacosane, 11-methylheptacosane, 13-methylheptacosane and 3-methylhepta-cosane, and indicated that these components were qualitatively identical and quantitatively similar. 

Tartivita, K. and Jackson, L.L. (1970). Cuticular lipids of insects. I. Hydrocarbons of Leucophaea maderae and Blatta orientalis. Lipids, 5, 35-37. 

Our principal target was the German cockroach, (Blattella germanica) as the most widespread domestic cockroach in the USA, but a limited number of confirmatory studies were done on the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) and the oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis). 

Cockroaches - Blattella germanica, Periplanetta americana, Blatta orientalis... 

Priest, F. G., Barker, M. (2010). Gram-negative bacteria associated with brewery yeasts reclassification of Obesumbacterium proteus biogroup 2 as Shimwellia pseudoproteus gen. nov., sp. nov., and transfer of Escherichia blattae to Shimwellia blattae comb. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 60(4), 828-833. 

Constit. of Nauclea, Pinus and Vaccinium spp. Also isol. from the cockroaches Blatta orientalis and Periplaneta americana. 

Periplanone A is the sex pheromone of American cockroach Periplmeta ameri-cana and the oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis. 

PDO, and aldehyde dehydrogenase (AldD), the engineered S. blattae strains are able to produce 3-HP from glycerol, via the conversion of 1,3-PDO to 3-HPA and oxidation of 3-HPA to 3-HP. Using this metabolic engineering strategy. 

I.I., and Steinbiichel, A. (2013) From waste to plastic synthesis of poly (3-hydroxypropionate) in Shimwellia blattae. Appl Environ. Microbiol, 79 (12), 3582-3589. 

Sato, S., AndreeBen, B., and Steinbiichel, A. (2015) Strain and process development for poly (3HB-CO-3HP) fermentation by engineered Shimwellia blattae from glycerol. AMB Express, 5 (1), 1-9. 

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