Ultrastructural changes associated with pheromone production in the sex pheromone gland of Diatraea saccharalis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1973

Abstract

An ultrastructural study of the sex pheromone gland of female adult sugarcane borers suggests that pheromone is not produced during the first 2 hr after emergence but reaches a peak 48 hr after emergence. The sex pheromone gland is composed of two cell types and a number of structural changes observed to occur in the cells of the sex pheromone gland prior to pheromone production are described. © 1973.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of Insect Physiology

First Page

1933

Last Page

1940

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