Universität Regensburg

Joachim Ruther

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Leistungsprofil:

• Chemische Ökologie der Insekten (Identifizierung von verhaltensmodifizierenden Naturstoffen bei Insekten).

• Chemische Kommunikation parasitischer Wespen: DFG RU 717/10-1: "Pheromone communication in the model organism Nasonia vitripennis"

• gekoppelte Gaschromatographie-Massenspektrometrie (GC-MS)mit Flüssig- und Thermodesorption
• präparative Gaschromatographie
• Gaschromatographie mit Flammenionisationsdetektion (FID)
• Computergestützte Verhaltensbeobachtungen mit Insekten

Publikationen:

• Blaul, B. & Ruther, J. (2011) How parasitoid females produce sexy sons: a causal link between oviposition preference, dietary lipids, and mate choice in Nasonia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 3286-3293.
• Ruther J, Matschke M, Garbe L-A & Steiner S (2009) Quantity matters: male sex pheromone signals mate quality in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 3303-3310.
• Abdel-latief M, Garbe L-A, Koch M & Ruther J (2008) An epoxide hydrolase involved in the biosynthesis of an insect sex attractant and its use to localize the production site. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105: 8914-8919
• Ruther J, Stahl LM, Steiner S, Garbe LA & Tolasch, T (2007) A male sex pheromone in a parasitic wasp and control of the behavioral response by the female's mating status. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 2163-2169.
• Ruther, J. (2004) Male-biassed response of garden chafer, Phyllopertha horticola, to leaf alcohol and attraction of both sexes to floral plant volatiles. Chemoecology 14:187-192.
• Ruther, J. & Hilker, M. (2003) Attraction of forest cockchafer Melolontha hippocastani to (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol and 1,4-benzoquinone: application aspects. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 107: 141-147.
• Reinecke, A., Ruther, J. & Hilker, M. (2002) The scent of food and defence: Green leaf volatiles and toluquinone as sex attractant mediate mate finding in the European cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha. Ecology Letters 5: 257-263.
• Ruther, J., Reinecke, A., Tolasch, T. & Hilker, M. (2001) Make love not war: A common arthropod defence compound as sex pheromone in the forest cockchafer Melolontha hippocastani. Oecologia, 128, 44-47.
• Ruther J. (2009) Attractant for garden chafer Phyllopertha horticola. German Patent DE 10 2004 004900.9
• Ruther J. (2009) Attractant for garden chafer Phyllopertha horticola. German Patent DE 10 2004 004900.9

Kooperationsangebot für die Wirtschaft / Praxis:

• Biologischer Pflanzenschutz

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