TY - JOUR
T1 - Methionol, a Sulfur-Containing Pheromone Component from the North American Cerambycid Beetle Knulliana cincta cincta
AU - Rice, Marlin E.
AU - Hanks, Lawrence M.
AU - Halloran, Sean
AU - Mongold-Diers, Judith A.
AU - Grommes, Anna C.
AU - Mitchell, Robert F.
AU - Ray, Ann M.
AU - Millar, Jocelyn G.
N1 - We thank John Pearson and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for access to Nine Eagles State Park, and Linnea R. Meier, Todd D. Johnson, Heidi Pierce, Lorenzo D’Alessio, and Aaron Blue for assistance with field work in Illinois. We also thank Ian Swift and personnel from the Los Angeles County Parks who assisted with field work and access to sites in California for T. a. armatum. We appreciate continuous funding support from a series of grants from the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to JGM and LMH during the course of the studies reported here.
We thank John Pearson and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for access to Nine Eagles State Park, and Linnea R. Meier, Todd D. Johnson, Heidi Pierce, Lorenzo D’Alessio, and Aaron Blue for assistance with field work in Illinois. We also thank Ian Swift and personnel from the Los Angeles County Parks who assisted with field work and access to sites in California for T. a. armatum. We appreciate continuous funding support from a series of grants from the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to JGM and LMH during the course of the studies reported here.
This research was funded by a series of grants from the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to JGM and LMH. The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - We describe the identification and field testing of 3-methylthiopropan-1-ol (methionol) as a male-produced aggregation-sex pheromone for the cerambycid beetle Knulliana cincta cincta (Drury) (subfamily Cerambycinae, tribe Bothriospilini). The corresponding sulfoxide, 3-methylsulfinylpropan-1-ol, was also produced sex-specifically by males, but its function remains unclear because the measured release rates of this compound from five different types of release devices were very low to undetectable. Unexpectedly, adults of the cerambycine Elaphidion mucronatum (Say) (Elaphidiini), primarily females, also were attracted by methionol, despite males of this species producing an aggregation-sex pheromone of entirely different structure, (2E,6Z,9Z)-2,6,9-pentadecatrienal.
AB - We describe the identification and field testing of 3-methylthiopropan-1-ol (methionol) as a male-produced aggregation-sex pheromone for the cerambycid beetle Knulliana cincta cincta (Drury) (subfamily Cerambycinae, tribe Bothriospilini). The corresponding sulfoxide, 3-methylsulfinylpropan-1-ol, was also produced sex-specifically by males, but its function remains unclear because the measured release rates of this compound from five different types of release devices were very low to undetectable. Unexpectedly, adults of the cerambycine Elaphidion mucronatum (Say) (Elaphidiini), primarily females, also were attracted by methionol, despite males of this species producing an aggregation-sex pheromone of entirely different structure, (2E,6Z,9Z)-2,6,9-pentadecatrienal.
KW - Antagonism
KW - Attractant pheromone
KW - Interspecific cross-attraction
KW - Longhorned beetle
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U2 - 10.1007/s10886-022-01351-9
DO - 10.1007/s10886-022-01351-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 35366125
AN - SCOPUS:85127596461
SN - 0098-0331
VL - 48
SP - 347
EP - 358
JO - Journal of Chemical Ecology
JF - Journal of Chemical Ecology
IS - 4
ER -