Annual Review of Entomology (2000) 45, 605-630
Michel Renou and Angel Guerrero (2000)
Insect parapheromones in olfaction research and semiochemical-based pest control strategies
Annual Review of Entomology 45, 605-630
Abstract: The possibility of disrupting the chemical communication of insect pests has initiated the development of new semiochemicals, parapheromones, which are anthropogenic compounds structurally related to natural pheromone components. Modification at the chain and/or at the polar group, isosteric replacements, haloge-nation or introduction of labeled atoms have been the most common modifications of the pheromone structure. Parapheromones have shown a large variety of effects, and accordingly have been called agonists, pheromone mimics, synergists and hyper-agonists, or else pheromone antagonists, antipheromones and inhibitors. Pheromone analogues have been used in quantitative structure-activity relationship studies of insect olfaction, and from a practical point of view they can replace pheromones when these are costly to prepare or unstable under field conditions.
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Database assignments for author(s): Michel Renou
Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
pheromones/attractants/traps
