Wendell L. Roelofs

Research.com Recognitions

• 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1985 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1983 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his fundamental contributions to basic and applied biology in the field of insect pheromones, their chemical composition and blends, their biosysnthesis, how insects perceive and respond to them, and their use in insect pest management.", Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on February 27, 1985.
• 1982 - Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his fundamental chemical and biological research on pheromones and their practical use in insect control.

Overview

Best Publications

• Evolution of moth sex pheromones via ancestral genes

  Wendell L. Roelofs;Weitian Liu;Guixia Hao;Hongmei Jiao

  394
  Citations

• A Δ9 desaturase gene with a different substrate specificity is responsible for the cuticular diene hydrocarbon polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster

  Renaud Dallerac;Carole Labeur;Jean-Marc Jallon;Douglas C. Knipple

  335
  Citations

• Fruit odor discrimination and sympatric host race formation in Rhagoletis

  Charles Linn;Jeffrey L. Feder;Satoshi Nojima;Hattie R. Dambroski

  317
  Citations

• Sex pheromone production and perception in European corn borer moths is determined by both autosomal and sex-linked genes.

  Wendell Roelofs;Thomas Glover;Xian-Han Tang;Isabelle Sreng

  302
  Citations

• Molecular genetics and evolution of pheromone biosynthesis in Lepidoptera

  Wendell L. Roelofs;Alejandro P. Rooney

  237
  Citations

• Sex pheromone of the european corn borer,Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in New York

  J. Kochansky;R. T. Cardé;J. Liebherr;W. L. Roelofs

  233
  Citations

• Purification, Identification, Concentration and Bioactivity of (Z)-7-Dodecen-1-yl Acetate: Sex Pheromone of the Female Asian Elephant, Elephas maximus

  L. E. L. Rasmussen;T. D. Lee;A. Zhang;W. L. Roelofs

  222
  Citations

• Gut bacteria mediate aggregation in the German cockroach

  Ayako Wada-Katsumata;Ludek Zurek;Godfrey Nalyanya;Wendell L. Roelofs

  215
  Citations

• Two sex pheromone components of the tobacco budworm moth, Heliothis virescens.

  Wendell L. Roelofs;Ada S. Hill;Ring T. Carde;Thomas C. Baker

  210
  Citations

• Insect pheromone in elephants.

  Rasmussen Le;Lee Td;Roelofs Wl;Zhang A

  209
  Citations

• Biosynthesis of lepidopteran pheromones

  Wendell Roelofs;Louis Bjostad

  205
  Citations

• Chemistry of sex attraction.

  Wendell L. Roelofs

  205
  Citations

• Sex pheromone perception: electroantennogram responses of the red-banded leaf roller moth.

  W.L. Roelofs;A. Comeau

  202
  Citations

• Structural organization of the Helicoverpa zea gene encoding the precursor protein for pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide and other neuropeptides

  Peter W. K. Ma;Douglas C. Knipple;Wendell L. Roelofs

  198
  Citations

• Identification of a new blend of apple volatiles attractive to the apple maggot: Rhagoletis pomonella

  Aijun Zhang;Aijun Zhang;Charles Linn;Starker Wright;Ronald Prokopy

  197
  Citations

• Pheromone Biosynthesis in Lepidopterans: Desaturation and Chain Shortening

  L.B. Bjostad;W.A. Wolf;W.L. Roelofs

  197
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• Sex Pheromone of the Oriental Fruit Moth

  Wendell L. Roelofs;André Comeau;Robert Selle

  179
  Citations

• Redundancy in a chemical signal: Behavioral responses of maleTrichoplusia ni to a 6-Component sex pheromone blend

  Linn Ce;Bjostad Lb;Du Jw;Roelofs Wl

  166
  Citations

• Sex pheromone perception: Synergists and inhibitors for the red-banded leaf roller attractant

  W.L. Roelofs;A. Comeau

  161
  Citations

• Three European corn borer populations in New York based on sex pheromones and voltinism

  W. L. Roelofs;J. W. Du;X. H. Tang;P. S. Robbins

  161
  Citations