Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, Texas.
J Chem Ecol. 1983 Mar;9(3):423-32. doi: 10.1007/BF00988459.
Two large proteins (>330 K) present in the accessory gland ofHeliothis virescens F. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) serve as an egg recognition kairomone for the parasitoidTelenomus heliothidis Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Glass beads coated with the isolated proteins were examined and probed by the parasitoid while uncoated glass beads were not. Electrophoretic analysis of the contents of theH. virescens accessory gland suggests that the gland's contents serve as an egg adhesive. Comparison of the gland proteins revealed that theT. heliothidis hostHeliothis zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) accessory gland contained the kairomonally active proteins while the nonhostSpodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) did not.
两种存在于烟实夜蛾（鳞翅目：夜蛾科）附腺中的大型蛋白（>330K）可用作其寄生蜂智利小植绥螨（膜翅目：植绥螨科）的卵识别信息素。包被有分离蛋白的玻璃珠被寄生蜂检测和探测，而未包被的玻璃珠则没有。对烟实夜蛾附腺内容物的电泳分析表明，该附腺的内容物可用作卵粘着剂。对附腺蛋白的比较表明，智利小植绥螨的宿主玉米螟（鳞翅目：夜蛾科）含有具有信息活性的蛋白，而非宿主草地贪夜蛾（鳞翅目：夜蛾科）则没有。
