Termination of sex pheromone production
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Tetsu Ando; Kie Kasuga; Yohko Yajima; Hiroshi Kataoka; Akinori Suzuki
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A mating duration of more than 6 h was necessary to permanently terminate the production of the sex pheromone (bombykol) in the silkworm moth, Bornbyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae), although the female formed a bursa copulatrix including a spermatophore and laid fertilized eggs even after mating