Heliothine moths

Vickers, N. J., Christensen, T. A., Mustaparta, H. and Baker, T.C. (1991). Chemical communication in heliothine moths. III. Flight behavior of male Heliocoverpa zea and Heliothis virescens in response to varying ratios of intra- and interspecific sex pheromone components. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 169 275-280. 

Christensen T. A., Lehman H. K., Teal P. E. A., Itagaki H., Tumlinson J. H. and Hildebrand J. G. (1992) Diel changes in the presence and physiological actions of octopamine in the female sex-pheromone glands of heliothine moths. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 22, 841-849. 

Baker T. C., Cosse A. A. and Todd J. L. (1998a) Behavioral antagonism in the moth Helicoverpa zea in response to pheromone blends of three sympatric Heliothine moth species is explained by one type of antennal neuron. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 855, 511-513. 

Almaas T. J., Christensen T. A. and Mustaparta H. (1991) Chemical communication in heliothine moths. I. Antennal receptor neurons encode several features of intra- and interspecific odorants in the male com earworm moth Helicoverpa zea. J. Comp. Physiol. A 169, 249-258. 

Hansson B. S., Almaas T. J. and Anton S. (1995) Chemical communication in heliothine moths. V. Antennal lobe projection patterns of pheromone-detecting olfactory receptor neurons in the male Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera Noctuidae). J. Comp. Physiol. A 177, 535-543. 

B.S. Hansson et al., Chemical Communication in Heliothine Moths. 5. Antermal Lobe Projection Patterns of Pheromone-Detecting Olfactory Receptor Neurons in the Male Heliothis-Virescens (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Journal of Comparative Physiology a-Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 177 (1995) 535-543. 

Figure 10.2 The A -P-ocimcne receptor neuron type in heliothine moths and the strawberry weevil. Gas chromatograms of a standard sample and simultaneously reeordcd neuron activity (spikes/s) of a receptor neuron of Heliothis virescens (left) and of Anthonomus rubi (right). Both neurons responded to dihydromyrcene, p-myrcene, Z-P- and -P-ocimene, The neuron of A. rubi also responded to the solvent and limonene. Below The molecular structures of odorants activating the -p-ocimene receptor neuron type in the strawberry weevil. The bracket indicates the molecular receptive range of the ii-p-oeimene receptor neuron type in H. virescem.

MATTHEWS, M., Heliothine Moths of Australia. A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups, 1999, Coolingwood, Australia CSIRO Publishing. 

STRANDEN, M., LIBLIKAS, I KONIG, W. A., ALMAAS, T. J., BORG-KARLSON, A.-K., MUSTAPARTA, H., (-)-Germacrene D receptor neurones in three species of heliothine moths structure-activity relationships, J. Comp. Physiol. A, 2003, 189, 563-577. 

MULLER, D., R0, H., MUSTAPARTA, H., Olfaction in Heliothine moths IV. Coding properties and dendrite arborizations in identified glomeruli of antennal lobe output neurones, FENS abstr, 2002,1, 470. 

KVELLO, P., ALMAAS, T. J., MUSTAPARTA, H., BJAALIE, J. G., Taste in Heliothine moths Il. Morphology of the contact chemosensilla on the proboscis and the projection patterns of the associated receptor neurones in the primary taste centre of the CNS, FENS abstr., 2002,1,470. 

Vickers NJ, Baker TC (1994) Reiterative responses to single strands of odor promote sustained upwind flight and odor source location by moths. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91 5756-5760 Vickers NJ, Baker TC (1997) Chemical communication in heliothine moths. VII. Correlation... 

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