DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
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SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Seybold, S.J., Quilici, D.R., Tillman, J.A., Vanderwel, D., Wood, D.L., and Blomquist, G.J. 1995. De novo biosynthesis of the aggregation pheromone components ipsenol and ipsdienol by the pine bark beetles, Ips paraconfusus Lanier and Ips pini (Say)(Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 92:8393-8397. Obtain PDF format of article

Cognato, A.I., Seybold, S.J., Wood, D.L., and Teale, S.A. 1997. A cladistic analysis of pheromone evolution in Ips bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Evolution 51:313-318.

Ivarsson, P., Blomquist, G.J., and Seybold, S.J. 1997. In vitro production of the pheromone intermediates ipsdienone and ipsenone by the bark beetles Ips pini (Say) and I. paraconfusus Lanier (Coleoptera:Scolytidae). Naturwissenschaften 84:454-457. Obtain PDF format of article

Tillman, J.A., Holbrook, G.L., Dallara, P.L., Schal, C., Wood, D.L., Blomquist, G.J., and Seybold, S.J. 1998. Endocrine regulation of de novo aggregation pheromone biosynthesis in the pine engraver, Ips pini (Say)(Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 28:705-715. Obtain PDF format of article

Ivarsson, P., Tittiger, C., Blomquist, C., Borgeson, C.E., Seybold, S.J., Blomquist, G.J., and Hˆgberg, H.E. 1998. Pheromone precursor synthesis is localized in the metathorax of Ips paraconfusus Lanier (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Naturwissenschaften 85: 507-511. Obtain PDF format of article

Tittiger, C., Blomquist, G.J., Ivarsson, P., Borgeson, C.E., and Seybold, S.J., 1999. Juvenile hormone regulation of HMG-R gene expression in the bark beetle Ips paraconfusus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae): implications for male aggregration pheromone biosynthesis. Cell Molec Life Sci 55: 121-127. Obtain PDF format of article

Tillman, J.A., Seybold, S.J., Jurenka, R.A., and Blomquist, G.J., 1999. Insect pheromones - An overview of the biosynthesis and endocrine regulation. Insect Biochem Molec Biol 29:481-514. Obtain PDF format of article

Cognato, A.I., Seybold, S.J., and Sperling, F.A.H., 1999. Incomplete barriers to mitochondrial gene flow between pheromone races of the North American pine engraver, Ips pini (Say) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Proc R Soc Lond B 266:1843-1850. Obtain PDF format of article

Tittiger, C., O'Keeffe, C., Bengoa, C.S., Barkawi, L.S., Seybold, S.J. , and Blomquist, G.J. 2000. Isolation and endocrine regulation of an HMG-CoA synthase cDNA from the male Jeffrey pine beetle, Dendroctonus jeffreyi (Coleoptera:Scolytidae). Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 30: 1203-1211. Obtain PDF format of article

Seybold, S.J. and Tittiger, C. 2003. Biochemistry and molecular biology of de novo isoprenoid pheromone production in the Scolytidae. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 48: 425-453.