Sex Attractant of the Black Carpet Beetle

• Author(s): Silverstein, Robert M.; Rodin, J. Otto; Burkholder, Wendell E.; Gorman, John E.
• Title:
  Sex Attractant of the Black Carpet Beetle
• Journal Title: Science
• DOI: 10.1126/science.157.3784.85
• URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.157.3784.85
• Volume: 157
• Issue: 3784
• Page(s): 85-87
• Date: 1967-07-07
• Keywords:
  Attagenus unicolor
• Abstract:

  The principal component of the sex attractant of the black carpet beetle Attagenus megatoma (Fabricius) is trans -3, cis -5-tetradecadienoic acid.

• ISSN: 0036-8075
• Document Type: Journal Article
• Language: en
• Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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