Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
J Chem Ecol. 1983 Jul;9(7):923-31. doi: 10.1007/BF00987815.
Males of the carpenter bee,Xylocopa sulcatipes, establish and defend territories which they mark with the secretions of their mandibular glands. Chemical analysis of the glandular blend revealed that it is composed of guaiacol,p-cresol, and vanillin. Territorial males recognize other intruding males either by sight or by the odor emitted from their mandibular glands. They chase the intruder out of the territory immediately, but will not do so if the visitor is a female. If a female, however, is scented with the reconstituted synthetic pheromonal blend and introduced into a territory of a male, it is treated as a male and chased out of the territory. It is suggested that the blend has a dual function: Guaiacol seems to be the aggressiveness elicitor, while vanillin is the territorial marker and female attractant and therefore could be considered a sex pheromone.
雄钻穴蜜蜂，Xylocopa sulcatipes，建立和保卫它们用下颌腺分泌物标记的领地。对腺体混合物的化学分析表明，它由愈创木酚、对甲酚和香草醛组成。领地内的雄蜂通过视觉或从它们的下颌腺分泌出的气味来识别其他入侵的雄蜂。它们会立即将入侵者赶出领地，但如果访客是雌性，它们就不会这样做。然而，如果一只雌性被合成的信息素混合物重新配制的气味所吸引，并被引入一只雄性的领地，它就会被当作一只雄性并被赶出领地。这表明这种混合物具有双重功能：愈创木酚似乎是引发攻击的物质，而香草醛是领地标记和雌性引诱剂，因此可以被认为是一种性信息素。
