Are Insect-Synthesized Retronecine Esters (Creatonotines) the Precursors of the Male Courtship Pheromone in the Arctiid Moth Estigmene acrea?
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Chemical Ecology
- Vol. 29 (11) , 2603-2608
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026361628676
Abstract
The pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) profiles were determined for adults of the polyphagous arctiid Estigmene acrea, which as larvae had fed on artificial diet supplemented with Crotalaria-pumilapowder...Keywords
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