Science. 1987 Aug 7;237(4815):650-2. doi: 10.1126/science.237.4815.650.
The pheromone-mediated flight behavior of male Oriental fruit moths was observed in the field to test the hypothesis that male activation far downwind of a female is initiated by the major, or most abundant, component of the pheromone blend. Males responded at significantly greater distances to the three-component pheromone blend produced by females than to the major component alone or to either binary mixture containing the major component and one minor component. These results support the alternative hypothesis that the active space of a multicomponent pheromone is a function of male perception of the female-released blend of components, rather than of the major component alone, and that so-called minor components have a greater impact on male behavior farther downwind of a female than previously thought.
在野外观察到了雄性东方果实蛾的信息素介导的飞行行为，以检验以下假设：在雌性很远的下风处，雄性的激活是由信息素混合物中的主要成分或最丰富的成分引发的。与仅含主要成分或含主要成分和一种次要成分的两种混合物相比，雄性对由雌性产生的三成分信息素混合物的反应距离明显更大。这些结果支持了替代假设，即多成分信息素的有效空间是雄性对雌性释放的成分混合物的感知的函数，而不是仅由主要成分决定的，并且所谓的次要成分对雌性下风处的雄性行为的影响比以前认为的要大。
