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B Hölldobler1, E D Morgan, N J Oldham, J Liebig.
Abstract
Workers of the harvester ant genus Pogonomyrmex employ recruitment trail pheromones discharged from the poison gland. In P. barbatus, P. maricopa, P. occidentalis and P. rugosus we identified three pyrazines [2,5-dimethylpyrazine, trimethylpyrazine and 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (EDMP)] as major compounds of the volatile part of the poison-gland secretions. Laboratory and field tests revealed EDMP to be the main recruitment pheromone.Entities:
Year: 2001 PMID: 11166301 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(00)00143-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Insect Physiol ISSN: 0022-1910 Impact factor: 2.354