Greenberg Les, Aliabadi Ali, McElfresh J Stephen, Topoff Howard, Millar Jocelyn G
Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
J Chem Ecol. 2004 Jun;30(6):1297-303. doi: 10.1023/b:joec.0000030300.11787.01.
The sex attractant pheromone produced in mandibular glands of queens of the slave-making ant Polyergus breviceps has been identified as a blend of methyl 6-methylsalicylate and 3-ethyl-4-methylpentanol. In field trials, each compound alone was completely unattractive to males, whereas blends of the two compounds attracted hundreds of males within a couple of hours.
奴役蚁短结猛蚁蚁后的下颌腺产生的性引诱信息素已被鉴定为6-甲基水杨酸甲酯和3-乙基-4-甲基戊醇的混合物。在野外试验中,单独的每种化合物对雄性完全没有吸引力,而这两种化合物的混合物在几个小时内就能吸引数百只雄性。