Figure 7
Putative biosynthesis pathways of the sex pheromones in Agrotis ipsilon . The saturated fatty acid precursor palmitic acid (16:0) is desaturated by ∆11-desaturase to form the precursor Z 11-16:acyl-CoA for the production of three major and one minor pheromone components (adapted from [2, 6, 12, 13, 50]).