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Yang CY, Mori K, Kim J, Kwon KB. Identification and field bioassays of the sex pheromone of Eurytoma maslovskii (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae). Sci Rep 2020; 10:10281. [PMID: 32581339 PMCID: PMC7314779 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67252-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Long-range sex pheromones are generally considered to be a main cue for mate recognition in the order Hymenoptera. Although considerable attention has been given to the identification of semiochemicals in the superfamily Chalcidoidea, which comprises 19 families, no study has identified active components in a field bioassay. We herein report the sensitive and selective pheromone communication system of the Korean apricot wasp, Eurytoma maslovskii (Eurytomidae), whose larvae feed on Prunus mume seeds. Using gas chromatography coupled with electroantennographic detection (GC-EAD) and mass spectrometry (GC-MS), we detected 2,10-dimethyldodecyl propionate and 2,8-dimethyldecyl propionate in thoracic extracts of female E. maslovskii at a ratio of 8:2 as the active pheromone components. Field experiments showed that the attractive effect of the two compounds is highly enantioselective. Racemic 2,10-dimethyldodecyl propionate and 2,8-dimethyldecyl propionate were not attractive to E. maslovskii males. In bioassays with single enantiomers, the (2 S,10 R)-enantiomer was highly attractive to male wasps, and the (2 S,8 S)-enantiomer was also attractive, although to a lesser degree. No synergistic effect between (2 S,10 R)- and (2 S,8 S)-enantiomers was identified, and the (2 S,10 R)-enantiomer alone caught significantly more males than the natural pheromone extracts. The addition of other enantiomers to the (2 S,10 R)-isomer significantly decreased the attraction of conspecific males. In addition, a very low dose of synthetic pheromone attracted conspecific males, showing that both female signaling and male response traits may have evolved to contribute to species-specific sexual communication in this species.
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- Chang Yeol Yang
- Horticultural and Herbal Crop Environment Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, Wanju, Republic of Korea.
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- Photosensitive Materials Research Center, Toyo Gosei Co., Ltd, 4-2-1 Wakahagi, Inzai-shi, Chiba, 270-1609, Japan
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- Forest Insect Pests and Diseases Division, National Institute of Forest Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- AD Corporation, Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea
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Bittner N, Hundacker J, Achotegui-Castells A, Anderbrant O, Hilker M. Defense of Scots pine against sawfly eggs ( Diprion pini) is primed by exposure to sawfly sex pheromones. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:24668-24675. [PMID: 31748269 PMCID: PMC6900732 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910991116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Plants respond to insect infestation with defenses targeting insect eggs on their leaves and the feeding insects. Upon perceiving cues indicating imminent herbivory, such as damage-induced leaf odors emitted by neighboring plants, they are able to prime their defenses against feeding insects. Yet it remains unknown whether plants can amplify their defenses against insect eggs by responding to cues indicating imminent egg deposition. Here, we tested the hypothesis that a plant strengthens its defenses against insect eggs by responding to insect sex pheromones. Our study shows that preexposure of Pinus sylvestris to pine sawfly sex pheromones reduces the survival rate of subsequently laid sawfly eggs. Exposure to pheromones does not significantly affect the pine needle water content, but results in increased needle hydrogen peroxide concentrations and increased expression of defense-related pine genes such as SOD (superoxide dismutase), LOX (lipoxygenase), PAL (phenylalanine ammonia lyase), and PR-1 (pathogenesis related protein 1) after egg deposition. These results support our hypothesis that plant responses to sex pheromones emitted by an herbivorous insect can boost plant defensive responses to insect egg deposition, thus highlighting the ability of a plant to mobilize its defenses very early against an initial phase of insect attack, the egg deposition.
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- Norbert Bittner
- Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 12163 Berlin, Germany
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- Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 12163 Berlin, Germany
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- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Barcelona, 08193 Catalonia, Spain
- Global Ecology Unit, CREAF-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08193 Catalonia, Spain
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- Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 12163 Berlin, Germany;
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Staples JK, Bartelt RJ, Cossé AA, Whitman DW. Sex pheromone of the pine false webworm Acantholyda erythrocephala. J Chem Ecol 2011; 35:1448-60. [PMID: 20063203 DOI: 10.1007/s10886-009-9736-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2009] [Revised: 12/16/2009] [Accepted: 12/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Females of the pine false webworm Acantholyda erythrocephala (L) produce the sex pheromone (Z)-6, 14-pentadecadienal, which attracts flying males in the field. By using gas chromatography coupled with electroantennographic detection (GC-EAD) and mass spectrometry (GC-MS), we detected (Z)-6,14-pentadecadienal in volatile collections and in whole body extracts of female A. erythrocephala. Females, but not males, also exhibited a 25-carbon cuticular hydrocarbon, (Z,Z)-1,9,15-pentacosatriene, which can oxidize to (Z)-6,14-pentadecadienal upon exposure to air and sunlight. (Z,Z)-1,9,15-Pentacosatriene and (Z)-6,14-pentadecadienal identifications were corroborated by comparison with synthetic standards. (Z)-6, 14-Pentadecadienal is the second pheromone identified for pamphilliid sawflies, and the first to elicit strong field attraction, and thus offer potential as a pheromone lure to aid in control of this forest pest.
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- Joseph K Staples
- Department of Environmental Science, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, 04038, USA.
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Ouyang G, Vuckovic D, Pawliszyn J. Nondestructive Sampling of Living Systems Using in Vivo Solid-Phase Microextraction. Chem Rev 2011; 111:2784-814. [DOI: 10.1021/cr100203t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 369] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Gangfeng Ouyang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Safety/KLGHEI of Environment and Energy Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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Purification, Stereoisomeric Analysis and Quantification of Sex Pheromone Precursors in Female Whole Body Extracts from Pine Sawfly Species. J Chem Ecol 2010; 37:125-33. [DOI: 10.1007/s10886-010-9886-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Revised: 07/16/2010] [Accepted: 11/08/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Anderbrant O, Löfqvist J, Hedenström E, Bång J, Tai A, Högberg HE. Field response of male pine sawflies, Neodiprion sertifer (Diprionidae), to sex pheromone analogs in Japan and Sweden. J Chem Ecol 2010; 36:969-77. [PMID: 20680415 DOI: 10.1007/s10886-010-9834-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2010] [Revised: 06/24/2010] [Accepted: 07/11/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The pine sawfly Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffroy) uses the acetate or propionate of (2S,3S,7S)-3,7-dimethyl-2-pentadecanol (diprionol) as pheromone components, with the (2S,3R,7R)-isomer being antagonistic, synergistic, or inactive according to the population tested. In this study, we tested the attraction of males to the acetates of three analogs of diprionol, each missing one methyl group, viz. (2S,7S)-7-methyl-2-pentadecanol, (2S,6S)-2,6-dimethyl-1-tetradecanol, and (2S,3S)-3-methyl-2-pentadecanol. None of the analogs alone, or in combination with diprionol acetate, was attractive in Sweden, even at 100 times the amount of diprionol acetate attractive to N. sertifer. In Japan, the acetate of (2S,3S)-3-methyl-2-pentadecanol attracted males when tested in amounts 10-20 times higher than the acetate pheromone component. The acetate esters of the (2S,3R)-analog and the (2S,3R,7R)-isomer of diprionol also were tested in combination with the pheromone compound (acetate ester). Both compounds caused an almost total trap-catch reduction in Sweden, whereas in Japan they appear to have relatively little effect on trap capture when added to diprionol acetate. Butyrate and iso-butyrate esters of diprionol were unattractive to N. sertifer in Sweden. In summary, there exists geographic variation in N. sertifer in responses to both diprionyl acetate and some of its analogs.
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- Olle Anderbrant
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-223 62, Lund, Sweden.
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Bergström LGW. Chemical communication by behaviour-guiding olfactory signals. Chem Commun (Camb) 2008:3959-79. [PMID: 18758598 DOI: 10.1039/b712681f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Chemical Ecology is a new interdisciplinary research area with close collaborations between chemists and biologists of different descriptions. It has developed during the last 40 years because of an interest in the structure, function and evolution of chemical signalling among organisms and also because of the hope to be able to use the ubiquitous phenomenon to control organisms, like pest insects. This feature article highlights the growth of the discipline and the progress made, through examples from the author's own work on chemical communication in insects and flowering plants. The research deals with olfactory signals, i.e. volatile chemical compounds perceived by the sense of smell. Analytical techniques and methods are an important part of the work.
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- L Gunnar W Bergström
- Laboratory for Ethological Chemistry, Kolonigatan 3, Goteborg, SE-41321, Sweden.
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Hedenström E, Edlund H, Wassgren AB, Bergström G, Anderbrant O, Ostrand F, Sierpinski A, Auger-Rozenberg MA, Herz A, Heitland W, Varama M. Sex pheromone of the pine sawfly, Gilpinia pallida: chemical identification, synthesis, and biological activity. J Chem Ecol 2007; 32:2525-41. [PMID: 17075724 DOI: 10.1007/s10886-006-9161-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We present the identification of the sex pheromone in the pine sawfly, Gilpinia pallida, including analysis of the female pheromone content, male antennal response and attraction in the field, and synthesis of the most active pheromone component. Several 3,7-dimethyl-2-alkanols were identified from female whole-body extracts, including some compounds with a 2R configuration. This is the first observation of such compounds in a pine sawfly species. Antennae of male G. pallida responded strongly in electroantennograph (EAG) recordings to the (2S,3R,7R)-isomers of the propionates of 3,7-dimethyl-2-tridecanol, 3,7-dimethyl-2-tetradecanol, and 3,7-dimethyl-2-pentadecanol, as well as to the acetates of the tri- and pentadecanols (the acetate of the tetradecanol was not tested). The propionate of (2S,3R,7R)-3,7-dimethyl-2-tetradecanol caught more males in the field than the corresponding isomer of tri- or pentadecanol. We suggest that the (2S,3R,7R)-isomer of 3,7-dimethyl-2-tetradecanol is likely the main sex pheromone precursor in G. pallida, with a subsidiary role for the (2S,3R,7R)-isomer of the tridecanol. Preparation of highly pure (2R,3R,7R)- and (2S,3R,7R)-stereoisomers of 3,7-dimethyl-2-tetradecanol, including the biological active esters, was performed via chemoenzymatic methods and is described in detail.
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- Erik Hedenström
- Department of Natural Sciences, Mid Sweden University, 85170, Sundsvall, Sweden.
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Musteata FM, Pawliszyn J. In vivo sampling with solid phase microextraction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 70:181-93. [PMID: 17112593 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbbm.2006.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2006] [Accepted: 07/23/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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This review discusses the most recent developments and future challenges in the application of solid phase microextraction (SPME) for sampling of live biological samples. The emphasis is placed on applications of fiber SPME for analysis of volatile emissions and drugs in biological fluids. The method development section highlights the main parameters that need to be considered in the case of in vivo experiments: extraction techniques, selection of extraction phases, calibration procedures, determination of free concentrations, and automation.
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Chemical ecology (CE) is an active, interdisciplinary field between chemistry and biology, which, stimulated by natural curiosity and possible applied aspects, has grown to its present position during the last 40-odd years. This area has now achieved a degree of maturity with its own journals, its own international society with annual meetings, and many enthusiastic scientists in laboratories around the world. The focus is on chemical communication and other chemical interactions between organisms, including volatile chemical signals, which guide behaviors linked to various vital needs. It reflects both biodiversity and chemodiversity. All living organisms have these important signal systems, which go back to the origins of life. Successful work in this area has called for close collaboration between chemists and biologists of different descriptions. It is thus a good example of chemistry for biology. The aim of the article is to give a short introduction to the field, with an emphasis on the role of chemistry in a biological context by: giving an overview of the development of the area; showing some examples of studies of chemical communication in insects and plants, basically from our own work; and describing some current trends and tendencies and possible future developments.
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