Abstract
Since the identification of the first insect sex pheromone, bombykol, by Butenandt et al. (1959), sex pheromones and attractants of more than 1500 species of insects, predominantly lepidopterans, have been identified. The first two decades of research on sex pheromones were characterized by a spate of activity on (a) chemical identification, (b) behavior, and (c) development of methods to use pheromones, either directly or indirectly, in control of insects. Research was conducted also to determine the pathways involved in pheromone biosynthesis (e.g., Roelofs and Wolf 1988). Many of these studies had shown that sex pheromones were fundamental to the reproductive isolation of species (e.g., Roelofs and Card¨¦ 1974).
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