Detrain C, Cammaerts M C
Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et Cellulaire (CP160), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Behav Processes. 1991 Aug;24(2):123-32. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(91)90004-J.
In the dimorphic species Pheidole pallidula, an ethological factor, present on the VIIth abdominal sternite attracts ants from short distances and enhances the linear speed of those having approached it. Added to poison gland extract, it improves the workers' trail following behaviour. This factor is essentially presented by minors, majors' sternite having a much weaker ethological effect. Several functions and a glandular origin are suggested for this hitherto unknown pheromone in Pheidole pallidula.
在二态物种苍白盲切叶蚁中，存在于第七腹节腹板上的一个行为学因素能在短距离吸引蚂蚁，并提高接近它的蚂蚁的直线速度。添加到毒腺提取物中时，它能改善工蚁的追踪行为。这个因素主要由小型工蚁表现出来，大型工蚁的腹板行为学效应要弱得多。对于苍白盲切叶蚁中这种迄今未知的信息素，人们提出了几种功能及腺体起源的推测。
