title: Chemical ecology: studies from East Africa.
abstract: The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), in Nairobi, provides a laboratory at which a multinational group of scientists pursues interdisciplinary research. In collaboration with their colleagues in biology, ICIPE chemists have characterized the sex pheromones of the tick which serves as a vector of East Coast fever and have identified a termite queen-cell-building pheromone. The structure of many anthropod defensive chemicals have been determined; most interesting of these are the trinervitenes, structurally novel diterpenoids from nasute termites. Several highly active insect antifeedants were discovered using a simple bioassay to screen selected East African plants. These antifeedants may provide leads for the development of new insect-control techniques.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meinwald
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Prestwich
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kubo