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... The chemical composition of the sexual communication signals of female moths is thought to be under strong stabilizing selection, because females that produce atypical pheromone blends suffer lower success in finding mates. This intraspecific selection pressure cannot explain the high diversity of moth pheromone blends found in nature. We conducted experiments to determine whether communication in ...
... Populations of Helicoverpa (= Heliothis) zea (Boddie), Heliothis virescens (F.), Manduca sexta (L.) and M. quinquemaculata (Haw.) and their egg and larval parasitoids were sampled in field plots of the: insect-resistant wild tomato, Lycopersicon hirsutum f. glabratum C. H. Mull, accession PI 134417; susceptible commercial tomato cultivar ‘Better Boy' F₁ hybrid; and selected, moderately resistant b ...
... Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) Cry1Ac toxin was subjected to genetic analysis in the YHD2 strain of Heliothis virescens (F.). Resistance in this strain allows survival at high toxin concentrations that kill all susceptible individuals, and permits rapid growth at lower sublethal concentrations that inhibit growth of susceptibles. To quantify the number and relative effects of loci ...
... Chlorfenapyr is a new pyrrole insecticide with a new mode of action. Its toxicity to adult Heliothis virescens (F.) is negatively correlated with cypermethrin toxicity by the equation y = -1.065x + 3.513 (r = 0.97), where x = log LC50 cypermethrin, y = log LC50 chlorfenapyr. Chlorfenapyr was most toxic to adults of a pyrethroid-resistant strain (LC50 = 70.1 micrograms per vial in adult vial tests ...
... The influence of five exotic cotton (Gossypium spp.) cytoplasms on yield, yield components, fiber properties, and insect populations was determined at Stoneville, Miss. The five cytoplasms were G. herbaceum L., G. arboreum L., G. anomalum Wawra ex Wawra & Peyr., G. barbadense L., and G. tomentosum Nutt. ex Seem. The five cytoplasms were combined by repeated backcrossing into the following upland c ...
... Permethrin resistance in the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), was inherited as a single, major, incompletely recessive, autosomal factor. In each of two parental resistant strains, backcrosses to their respective hybrids demonstrated segregation. A distinct plateau in mortality from 50 to 500 micrograms/g larva was observed. High, stable permethrin resistance (ca. 540-fold) was observed ...
ASTRID T. GROOT; CATHERINE WARD; JING WANG; AMANDA POKRZYWA; JENNIFER O’BRIEN; JOY BENNETT; JENNIFER KELLY; RICHARD G. SANTANGELO; COBY SCHAL; FRED GOULD
... As a first step toward understanding how noctuid moths evolve species-specific pheromone communication systems, we hybridized and backcrossed two closely related moth species, Heliothis virescens (Hv) and H. subflexa (Hs), which differ qualitatively and quantitatively in their multi-component sex pheromone blends. We used amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) marker-based mapping of backcr ...
... Ovipositional acceptance tests with Microplitis croceipes (Cresson) were conducted in the laboratory using Heliothis virescens (F.) and the H. virescens-H. subflexa back cross. No differences in parasitism rates of the two host types were observed in petri dish bioassays. A similar lack of difference in parasitization of H. virescens and H. virescens-H. subflexa larvae was observed in field studie ...
... Pheromone produced by the hairpencil glands of interspecific hybrid- and backcross-generation males from crosses between Heliothis virescens (F.) with H. subflexa (Gn.) was studied. Males of reciprocal F1 hybrids, all of which had hairpencil glands morphologically similar to those of H. virescens, produced neither the same pheromone blend nor amounts of pheromone that were produced by males of H. ...
... To understand the evolution of premating signals in moths, it is important to know the genetic basis of these signals. We conducted Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) analysis by hybridizing two noctuid moth species, Heliothis virescens (Hv) and Heliothis subflexa (Hs), and backcrossing the F1 females to males of both parental species. One of these backcrosses (F1 x Hs) was a biological replicate of o ...
... Electric grid traps baited with Heliothis subflexa (Guenée), H. virescens (F.), or H. zea (Boddie) females captured conspecific males with few exceptions.Heliothis subflexa females reduced the attraction ofH. virescens and H. zea males when used as bait simultaneously with females of either of these two species. Backcrosses were made with H. virescens males and female hybrids from a cross between ...
... Release of sterile backcross males from [Heliothis subflexa (F.) X H. virescens (Guenee) females X H. virescens males] has been suggested as a means of reducing populations of H. virescens. A simple method is needed to measure the persistence or dispersal of the backcross sterility genetic factors. Backcross male sterility is transmitted via maternal inheritance. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) also ...
... Larval feeding was assayed in a generalist caterpillar (Heliothis virescens (F.)), a specialist caterpillar (Heliothis subflexa (Gn.)), their F₁ hybrids and a backcross with H.s. to gain a preliminary understanding of the genetic basis of host use in H.v. Plants used in these experiments were tobacco (Nicotiana tabaccum), cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), soybean (Glycine max) (hosts of H.v.) and groun ...