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. 1984 Mar;10(3):429-50.
doi: 10.1007/BF00988090.

Contact sex pheromone in the tsetse flyGlossina pallidipes (Austen) Identification and Synthesis

D A Carlson  1 , D R Nelson, P A Langley, T W Coates, T L Davis, M E Leegwater-Van Der Linden
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Contact sex pheromone in the tsetse flyGlossina pallidipes (Austen) Identification and Synthesis

D A Carlson et al. J Chem Ecol. 1984 Mar.

Abstract

Adult maleG. pallidipes attempted to copulate with decoys treated with a branched paraffin obtained from laboratory-reared female flies. The compound causing maximal response was isolated and identified as 13,23-dimethylpentatriacontane. The synthesized compound elicited increasing responses with increasing doses. This sex- and species-specific compound was always present in physiological amounts in females, as it increased from 2 μg at emergence to 10 μg per female at 14 days. It was present in wild-caught females from a wide geographical range.

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