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An attractant compound was isolated from frass produced byTrypodendron lineatum female beetles boring in Douglas fir. The proposed structure is one of two isomeric tricyclic acetals, to which the trivial name lineatin is assigned.
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Research supported by: National Science Foundation (U.S.A.) Grant No. PCM 74-13643, National Research Council (Canada) Operating Grant No. A3881, Canada Department of Fisheries and Forestry Extramural Research Grant No. F-58, Canadian Forestry Service Science Subvention Grant, and the Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia.
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Macconnell, J.G., Borden, J.H., Silverstein, R.M. et al. Isolation and tentative identification of lineatin, a pheromone from the frass ofTrypodendron lineatum (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). J Chem Ecol 3, 549–561 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989076
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