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- Title
S-isorobinal as the female sex pheromone from an alarm pheromone emitting mite, Rhizoglyphus setosus.
- Authors
Atsuko Mizoguchi; Kenjiro Murakami; Nobuhiro Shimizu; Naoki Mori; Ritsuo Nishida; Yasumasa Kuwahara
- Abstract
Abstract The female sex pheromone of Rhizoglyphus setosus Manson (Astigmata: Acaridae) was identified as S-isorobinal (4S-4-isopropenyl-3-oxo-1-cyclohexene-1-carboxyaldehyde), which stimulated males sexually and enhanced the frequency of the male’s tapping and mounting behavior. Although the female hexane extract indicated no sign of sex pheromone activity against tested males, possibly due to the presence of the alarm pheromone neryl formate, an SiO2 column fraction containing isorobinal elicited sex pheromone activity at a dose of one female equivalent. The stereochemistry of natural isorobinal was identified as S by an HPLC using a chiral column. Both S- and R-isorobinals exhibited maximum activity at the same dose of 1 and 10 ng with a convex dose–response relationship. Amounts of S-isorobinal were determined to be 11.7 ± 1.0 ng per female and 6.4 ± 1.3 ng per male by GLC. This is the second example of two pheromones (the alarm pheromone neryl formate, and the sex pheromone S-isorobinal) demonstrated to be components of the same opisthonotal gland secretion.
- Subjects
ACARIFORMES; CHEMICAL structure; SEMIOCHEMICALS; SEX recognition (Zoology)
- Publication
Experimental & Applied Acarology, 2005, Vol 36, Issue 1/2, p107
- ISSN
0168-8162
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10493-005-1666-z