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1-octen-3-ol: a potent olfactory stimulant and attractant for tsetse isolated from cattle odours.
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1-octen-3-ol caused increased upwind flight by tsetse in a wind tunnel bioassay, and in the field it was attractive to t setse by itself and also increased the attractiveness of both ox odour and of mixtures ofcarbon dioxide and acetone.Abstract:
Recording of electroantennographic (EAG) responses from tsetse, Glossina pallidipes and G. morsitans morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae) has been used to detect olfactory stimulants in volatiles from cattle. The most potent stimulant in cattle odours collected on Porapak resin has been identifiedas 1-octen-3-ol by gas chromatographic retention data and mass spectrometry. The rate of production of 1-octen-3-ol by a normal ox was estimated to be 0.043 mghr−1, and the natural material was shown to be predominantly the (R)-(−)enantiomer. No 1-octen-3-ol was collected under the conditions used in the absence of an ox. EAG dose-response curves to 1-octen-3-ol showed it to be about 106 times more potent than acetone, a known attractant for tsetse, with the maximum response of about 1 mV occurring to approx. 1 ng at source. 1-octen-3-ol caused increased upwind flight by tsetse in a wind tunnel bioassay, and in the field it was attractive to tsetse by itself and also increased the attractiveness of both ox odour and of mixtures ofcarbon dioxide and acetone.read more
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