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Trail pheromone of leaf-cutting antAcromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus (Forel)
R R Do Nascimento1, E D Morgan, D D Moreira
1Department of Chemistry, University of Keele, ST5 5BG, Staffordshire, England.
Journal of Chemical Ecology
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Abstract:
The trail pheromone ofAcromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus consists simply of the heterocyclic ester methyl 4-methylpyrrole-2-carboxylate in the venom reservoir of workers at about 1.2 ng/ant. No pyrazines were detected, and no enhancement of trail-following was observed when pyrazines were added to the pyrrole compound.
