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2,6-dichlorophenol, sex pheromone of the lone star tick
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 25, 1972
Abstract:
The compound 2,6-dichlorophenol was identified from female lone star ticks, Amblyomma americanum, and is believed to be a sex pheromone of this arthropod. The natural occurrence of a chlorinated organic compound in a land animal is new. The presence of similar compounds of exogenous origin is common in animals, but efforts to implicate an outside source for the halogenated phenol have failed.