SOLDIER FORMATION REGULATED BY A PRIMER PHEROMONE FROM THE SOLDIER FRONTAL GLAND IN A HIGHER TERMITE, NASUTITERMES-LUJAE
SOLDIER FORMATION REGULATED BY A PRIMER PHEROMONE FROM THE SOLDIER FRONTAL GLAND IN A HIGHER TERMITE, NASUTITERMES-LUJAE
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.81.23.7665
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
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BORDEREAU, C
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作者：
LEFEUVE, P;BORDEREAU, C
在新生的高等白蚁N.lujae中，新士兵的分化被士兵自己抑制或推迟。实验数据有力地表明，这种抑制作用是士兵额腺分泌的一种引子信息素的作用结果。信息素必须直接接触。白蚁战士的额腺除了警报和防御之外，还承担了一个新的角色，尽管这种扩展不能推广到所有白蚁物种。显然，在白蚁群落中，士兵抑制信息素只是影响士兵调控的多种因素之一。
In the nasute higher termite N. lujae, the differentiation of new soldiers is suppressed or delayed by the soldiers themselves. Experimental data strongly suggest that this inhibitory effect results from the action of a primer pheromone secreted by the frontal gland of soldiers. The pheromone must be contacted directly. The frontal gland of termite soldiers assumes a new role in addition to alarm and defense, although this extension cannot be generalized to all termite species. The soldier inhibitory pheromone is evidently only 1 of multiple factors contributing soldier regulation in termite societies.