U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

PubAg

Main content area

You searched for: Subject alkanes Remove constraint Subject: alkanes Subject Dufour's gland Remove constraint Subject: Dufour's gland Text availability Citation in PubAg Remove constraint Text availability: Citation in PubAg
Start Over

Search

5  Search Results

1 - 5 of 5
Number of results to display per page

Search Results

1. Early learning of volatile chemical cues leads to interspecific recognition between two ant species

Author:
Errard, C.; Guisquet, A.-M. Le; Christidès, J.-P.; Mercier, J.-L.; Lenoir, A.; Hefetz, A.
Source:
Insectes sociaux 2008 v.55 no.2 pp. 115-122
ISSN:
0020-1812
Subject:
Dufour's gland; Formica selysi; aggression; alkanes; farnesene; headspace analysis; isomers; learning; nestmate recognition; nests; rearing; secretion; social insects; solid phase microextraction; volatile compounds
Abstract:
... Nestmate recognition in social insects generally involves matching a label to the template that is acquired through the early learning of non-volatile cuticular hydrocarbon cues. However, a possible role of the volatile chemical cues that exist in the nest, and which may also affect template formation, has not been studied. We investigated this possibility using experimental mixedspecies groups co ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00040-008-0979-4

2. Solitary Foraging in the Ancestral South American Ant, Pogonomyrmex vermiculatus. Is it Due to Constraints in the Production or Perception of Trail Pheromones?

Author:
Hugo Torres-Contreras; Ruby Olivares-Donoso; Hermann M. Niemeyer
Source:
Journal of chemical ecology 2007 v.33 no.2 pp. 435-440
ISSN:
0098-0331
Subject:
chemical composition; animal tissue extracts; insect behavior; locomotion; trail pheromones; pyrazines; alkanes; Dufour's gland; Pogonomyrmex; foraging; South America
Abstract:
... Several North American species of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants exhibit group foraging, whereas South American species are exclusively solitary foragers. The composition of the secretions of the poison and Dufour glands in the South American species, Pogonomyrmex vermiculatus, were analyzed, and the secretions and their components were tested as trail pheromones in laboratory bioassays. The major co ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10886-006-9240-7
PubMed:
17187299

3. Trail-following behaviour in two Aphaenogaster ants

Author:
Lenoir, Alain; Benoist, Amélie; Hefetz, Abraham; Francke, Wittko; Cerdá, Xim; Boulay, Raphaël
Source:
Chemoecology 2011 v.21 no.2 pp. 83-88
ISSN:
0937-7409
Subject:
Aphaenogaster senilis; Dufour's gland; alkaloids; alkanes; chemical analysis; chemical ecology; cross reaction; trail pheromones
Abstract:
... In the course of our studies on the chemical ecology of the widely distributed Mediterranean ant Aphaenogaster senilis, we found that trail following is triggered by extracts of the poison gland and Dufour's gland. To assess the specificity of the trail pheromone, we examined whether a cross-reaction exists between trails of A. senilis and the closely related species A. iberica. Specificity seemed ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00049-011-0071-9

4. Venom and Dufour's glands of the emerald cockroach wasp Ampulex compressa (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Sphecidae): Structural and biochemical aspects

Author:
Werner Gnatzy; Jan Michels; Walter Volknandt; Stephan Goller; Stefan Schulz
Source:
Arthropod structure & development 2015 v.44 no.5 pp. 491-507
ISSN:
1467-8039
Subject:
4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole; Ampulex compressa; Dufour's gland; alkadienes; alkanes; bladder; droplets; epithelium; glycoproteins; insects; lipid content; lipids; microvilli; muscle fibers; polypeptides; secretion; staining; striated muscle; venoms; volatile compounds
Abstract:
... The digger wasp species Ampulex compressa produces its venom in two branched gland tubules. They terminate in a short common duct, which is bifurcated at its proximal end. One leg is linked with the venom reservoir, the other one extends to the ductus venatus. Each venom gland tubule possesses, over its entire length, a cuticle-lined central duct. Around this duct densely packed class 3 gland unit ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.asd.2015.08.008

5. A blend of formic acid, benzoic acid, and aliphatic alkanes mediates alarm recruitment responses in western carpenter ants, Camponotus modoc

Author:
Asim Renyard; Regine Gries; Gerhard Gries
Source:
Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 2020 v.168 no.4 pp. 311-321
ISSN:
0013-8703
Subject:
Camponotus; Dufour's gland; acetates; alarm pheromones; alkanes; alkenes; benzoic acid; bioassays; carpenter ants; distress; formates; formic acid; olfactometers; worker ants
Abstract:
... Formicine ants in distress spray alarm pheromone which typically recruits nestmates for help. Studying the western carpenter ant, Camponotus modoc Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), our objectives were to (1) determine the exocrine glands that contain alarm recruitment pheromone, (2) identify the key alarm recruitment pheromone components, and (3) ascertain the pheromone components that are discha ...
DOI:
10.1111/eea.12901