| Literature DB >> 17813601 |
J E Amoore, G Palmieri, E Wanke, M S Blum.
Abstract
The ant Iridomyrmex pruinosus utilizes 2-heptanone as an alarm pheromone. The activities of 49 ketones and 35 nonketones as alarm pheromones for this species were determined. The molecular shapes of these compounds were assessed by submitting silhouette photographs of their molecular models to a pattern recognition machine. A highly significant correlation exists between molecular shape and alarm activity.Entities:
Year: 1969 PMID： 17813601 DOI： 10.1126/science.165.3899.1266
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728