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Harvesting Venom Toxins from Assassin Bugs and Other Heteropteran Insects
Published on: April 21, 2018
Secondary amines isolated from venom gland of dolichoderine antTechnomyrmex albipes
J J Brophy1, P S Clezy, C W Leung
1School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1, 2033, Kensington, NSW, Australia.
Abstract:
A series of unsaturated secondary amines have been isolated from the dolichoderine antTechnomyrmex albipes (F. Smith). The major components of the mixture have been shown by spectroscopic procedures to be dinon-8-enylamine, andN-hept-6-enylnon-8-enamine, and these structural assignments have been confirmed by synthesis. Mass spectrometry indicates the presence of trace amounts of the bis C11 amine and the C9-C11 amine. The four amines, present in total at approximately 2.8μg/ant, are located in the gaster of the insect in a gland that is considered to be the venom gland although it is atypical from a morphological standpoint.
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