CLOSE RANGE RESPONSES OF TSETSE-FLIES GLOSSINA-MORSITANS-MORSITANS WESTWOOD (DIPTERA, GLOSSINIDAE) TO HOST BODY KAIROMONES

Authors
SAINI RK HASSANALI A AHUYA P ANDOKE J NYANDAT E
Citation
Rk. Saini et al., CLOSE RANGE RESPONSES OF TSETSE-FLIES GLOSSINA-MORSITANS-MORSITANS WESTWOOD (DIPTERA, GLOSSINIDAE) TO HOST BODY KAIROMONES, Discovery and innovation, 5(2), 1993, pp. 149-153
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Discovery and innovation → ACNP
ISSN journal
1015079X
Volume
5
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
149 - 153
Database
ISI
SICI code
1015-079X(1993)5:2<149:CRROTG>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Kairomones from body washings of host animals at close range induced a rrestment, alighting and probing in male Glossina morsitans morsitans. Some of these kairomones were effective up to 20 cm from their source in a wind tunnel, indicating that they were perceived via olfactory r eceptors. Further experiments indicated that the active compounds were present in the ethyl acetate - insoluble, phenolic, acidic, neutral a nd basic fractions of the methanolic extract of the cattle wash. The p henolic fraction elicited the most probing behaviour.