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Fales HM, Blum MS, Bian Z, et al. Volatile compounds from ponerine ants in the genusMesoponera. J Chem Ecol. 1984;10(4):651-65doi: 10.1007/BF00994226.
Fales, H. M., Blum, M. S., Bian, Z., Jones, T. H., & Don, A. W. (1984). Volatile compounds from ponerine ants in the genusMesoponera. Journal of chemical ecology, 10(4), 651-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00994226
Fales, H M, et al. "Volatile compounds from ponerine ants in the genusMesoponera." Journal of chemical ecology vol. 10,4 (1984): 651-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00994226
Fales HM, Blum MS, Bian Z, Jones TH, Don AW. Volatile compounds from ponerine ants in the genusMesoponera. J Chem Ecol. 1984 Apr;10(4):651-65. doi: 10.1007/BF00994226. PMID: 24318602.
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J Chem Ecol. 1984 Apr;10(4):651-65. doi: 10.1007/BF00994226.

Volatile compounds from ponerine ants in the genusMesoponera.

Journal of chemical ecology

H M Fales, M S Blum, Z Bian, T H Jones, A W Don

Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Chemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute National Institutes of Health, 20205, Bethesda, Maryland.

PMID: 24318602 DOI: 10.1007/BF00994226

Abstract

Volatile constituents have been characterized from two species of ponerine ants in the genusMesoponera. 2,5-Dimethyl-3-isopentyl-pyrazine has been identified from cephalic extracts ofM. castanea andM. castaneicolor, by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Combined gasters and thoraces of both species are also characterized by the presence of nonanal, nonanoic acid, isovaleric acid, phenylacetic acid, and undecanal, as well as a series of aliphatic amines and amides.N-Isoamylnonylamine was a major constituent that was accompanied byN-isoamylnonenylamine,N,N-diisoamylnonylamine,N-acetyl nonylamine,N-formyl isoamylnonylamine,N-isovaleroyl nonylamine, and several other secondary and tertiary amines. The possible significance of the amines and amides as idiosyncratic natural products ofMesoponera species is discussed.

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