Ceratitis capitata

Mass releases of sterile male insects have produced dramatic reductions in the populations of the Mediteranean fmit dy Ceratitis capitata in California beginning in 1981 when 40 million sterile dies were released weekly and in the codling moth Cjdiapomonella in isolated apple orchards in the Pacific Northwest. 

The male Mediterranean fmit fly Ceratitis capitata is similarly attracted to the terpenoid a-copaene [3856-25-5] (176) from the oil oiA.ngelica archangelica and this and the parakairomone tert-huty 2-methyl-4-chlorocyclohexanoate (trimedlure [12002-53-8]) are very extensively employed in monitoring for infestations of this destmctive pest. The female apple maggot fly Jiagoktispomonella is attracted to the apple volatile butyl hexanoate, which is used to bait sticky red spheres to monitor populations and time spray treatments. 

Mediterranean fruitfly, Ceratitis capitata females, acute single exposure of 150-155 Gy Inhibited oviposition 3... 

Histone HI from the fruit fly Ceratitis capitata has two tyrosine residues. Jordano et al.(<)2> have observed two differences from calf thymus HI (1) the apparent quantum yield does not increase on protein folding and (2) there is a pH- and conformation-dependent shoulder at 340 nm in the emission spectrum. This group has attributed this 340-nm emission to tyrosinate.(97) Their studies demonstrate that the folding of histone HI from C. capitata is pH and ionic strength dependent. The possibility of tyrosinate formation at neutral pH is discussed in greater detail in Section 1.5.2. 

J. Jordano, J. L. Barbero, F. Montero, and L. Franco, Fluorescence of histones HI. A tyrosinate-like fluorescence emission in Ceratitis capitata HI at neutral pH values, J. Biol. Chem. 258, 315-320 (1983). 

R. Carallero, B. Fernandez, and F. Montero, Influence of carboxyl groups on conformation of histone HI from Ceratitis capitata, Int. J. Pept. Protein Res. 30, 415-422 (1987). 

Phormia regina Brachycera Muscomorpha Oestroidea Calliphoridae Ceratitis capitata (medfly)... 

Christophides G. K., Mintzas A. C. and Komitopoulou K. (2000) Organization, evolution and expression of a multigene family encoding putative members of the odourant binding protein family in the medfly Ceratitis capitata. Insect Mol. Biol. 9, 185-195. 

Pitts R. J. and Zwiebel L. J. (2001) Isolation and characterization of the Xanthine dehydrogenase gene of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. Genetics 158, 1645-1655. 

Thymianou S., Mavroidis M., Kokolakis G., Komitopoulos K., Zacharopoulou A. and Mintzas A. C. (1998) Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding a male-specific serum protein of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, with sequence similarity to odourant binding proteins. Insect Mol. Biol. 7, 345-353. 

Diptera. Some dipteran species are farm pests. In the event of fruit fly infestation, the species must be identified quickly. If adult flies are absent, accurate identification of larvae can be difficult or impossible on the basis of morphological characters. One study has shown that the Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspense and the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, have different CHC patterns at the larval stage and thus can be easily distinguished from each other (Sutton and Steck, 1994). This finding suggests that hydrocarbon analysis could be extended to identification of other species with high economic impact. 

Cinnamon oil exhibited fumigant toxicity to adults of Acanthoscelides oblectus and inhibited its reproduction through ovicidal and larvicidal action. Both cinnamaldehyde and cinnamyl alcohol showed ovicidal and larvicidal activity (Roger and Hamraoui, 1994). Cinnamaldehyde possessed antifeedant activity against Ceratitis capitata, a pest causing damage to fruit crops (Moretti et al., 1998). 

Moretti, M.D.F., Bazzoni, E., Passino, G.S. and Prota, R. (1998) Antifeedant effects of some essential oils on Ceratitis capitata. Wied. (Diptera, Tephritidae). Journal of Essential Oil Research 1 0, 405-412. 

A further complication arose when it was discovered that in the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata (Diptera Trypetidae) the corpora allata of adult virgin females produce, in addition to JHB-3, smaller amounts of methyl palmitate and less of JH III.97 Mated females produced much less methyl palmitate. It is suggested that methyl palmitate may be a default product of methylation, in the absence of JH, but it does not rule out the possibility that it also participates in some way in reproductive maturation and control, because its presence is correlated with the period of nonreceptivity toward mating in adult females of... 

T53 Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly 549 Hepialus humuli, hepialid moth 324... 

Celosia, 64-65 Centaurea. 65 Centipedes. 280-81.280 Ceratitis capitata. See Fruit flies... 

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