Insect Olfaction - Our Research Endeavor

摘要: In the early 1950s I was studying morphogenetic processes in invertebrates, and parallel did some follow-up studies of my 1949 thesis on nerve fiber function frog. It then happened that one neighbors hall residence at Tubingen University, biochemist Peter Karlson, told me rather advanced attempts to isolate identify “magic” odor compounds. This female sexual attractant silkworm moth Bombyx mori. had been reported work Fabre (1879), Forel (1910), others (see Gotz 1951) females wild species are able lure their males over long distances (Fig. 1). The effect seemed be so powerful observers could not believe this an odorous stimulus but mysterious radiation (Fabre 1879).