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A B Attygalle1, C L Blankespoor, J Meinwald, T Eisner.
Abstract
The defensive secretion ofTenebrio molitor contains a mixture of 2-methyl-1,4-benzoquinone andm-cresol. The phenol had not previously been detected in the secretion, although some investigators reported presence of 2-ethyl-1,4-benzoquinone as a second component. We failed to detect the latter quinone in secretion samples from three laboratory populations ofT. molitor.Entities:
Year: 1991 PMID: 24258924 DOI: 10.1007/BF00994202
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Chem Ecol ISSN: 0098-0331 Impact factor: 2.626