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ACETONE AFFECTS FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR AND EXPRESSION OF THE VITELLOGENIN GENE OF PISSODES STROBI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

T.S. Sahota ,
I. Leal ,
E. White ,
J.F. Manville ,
A. Ibaraki  and
J. Hollmann
T.S. Sahota
Affiliation:
Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5
I. Leal
Affiliation:
Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5
E. White
Affiliation:
Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5
J.F. Manville
Affiliation:
Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5
A. Ibaraki
Affiliation:
Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5
J. Hollmann
Affiliation:
Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8Z 1M5
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During their reproductive period, white pine weevils, Pissodes strobi Peck., remain on susceptible Sitka spruce trees, Picea sitchensis (Bong) Carr., that are suitable for their reproduction and progeny development. Weevils depart from resistant Sitka spruce trees, where weevil reproduction is inhibited or blocked by resistance (Sahota et al. 1994). This resistance appears to work by interfering with the juvenile hormone (JH) system of the weevil (Sahota et al. 1994; Leal et al. 1997). In our experiments to investigate whether or not interference with JH could also account for the weevils' domicile at susceptible trees and their departure from resistant trees (see Sahota et al. 1994), we routinely treat weevils with hormones and study their flight behaviour in the laboratory and field.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 130 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 383 - 384
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1998

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