Identification of a component of the trail pheromone of the ant Pheidole pallidula (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |
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| Authors: | MAHMOUD FADL ALI,E. DAVID MORGAN,CLAIRE DETRAIN,ATHULA B. ATTYGALLE&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, University of Keele, U.K;*Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, University of Brussels, Belgium;†Institute for Organic Chemistry II, University of Erlangen-Nuremburg, Erlangen, F.R.G |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT The poison gland of minor workers of P.pallidula. Nyl. contains 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine which induces trail-following in other workers, but does not account for the full trail-following effect of one worker's poison gland. No pyrazines were detected in major workers and their glands do not contain the pheromone. |
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| Keywords: | Ant trail pheromone Pheidole, poison gland minor workers 3-ethyl-2 5-dimethylpyrazine. |
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