Abstract
Dispersal behavior of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), in response to synthetic aggregating pheromone (frontalin) indicates an exponential decrease in response with distance from the site of emergence. Differential response during dispersal among genotypes at a polymorphic esterase locus was found by using starch gel electrophoresis. These differences produced allelic distributions that predict increased genetic diversity concurrent with increasing dispersal distance from the source population.
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FLORENCE, LZ, PC JOHNSON, and JE COSTER. 1982. “BEHAVIORAL AND GENETIC DIVERSITY DURING DISPERSAL -ANALYSIS OF A POLYMORPHIC ESTERASE LOCUS IN SOUTHERN PINE-BEETLE, DENDROCTONUS-FRONTALIS (COLEOPTERA, SCOLYTIDAE).” Environmental Entomology11 (5): 1014–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/11.5.1014.