Queen Sex Pheromone of the Slave-making Ant, Polyergus breviceps
Queen Sex Pheromone of the Slave-making Ant, Polyergus breviceps
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奴隶蚁 Polyergus breviceps 的性信息素女王
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
J. Millar
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作者：
L. Greenberg;A. Tröger;W. Francke;J. Mcelfresh;H. Topoff;A. Aliabadi;J. Millar
奴隶制造蚁的工蚁，短头Polyergus breviceps，袭击了Formica蚂蚁的巢穴，并带回了Formica pueries，这些蚂蚁在奴隶制造蚁群中成熟为工蚁。然后，这些福米卡工蚁会照顾Polyergus的幼崽、工蚁和繁殖后代。在交配季节的袭击中，有翅膀的处女Polyergus女王陪伴着袭击队伍中的工人。在突袭过程中，处女蚁后释放信息素，吸引雄性迅速与蚁后交配。我们报告的识别，合成和生物测定的性引诱信息素的皇后作为一个约1：6的比例（R）-3-乙基-4-甲基戊-1-醇和甲基6-甲基水杨酸。蚂蚁只产生醇的（R）-对映体，并且（S）-对映体没有生物活性，既不抑制也不增加对6-甲基水杨酸甲酯与（R）-对映体的共混物的吸引力。
Workers of the slave-making ant, Polyergus breviceps, raid nests of Formica ants and return with Formica pupae that mature into worker ants in the slave-makers’ colony. These Formica workers then tend the Polyergus brood, workers, and reproductives. During raids in the mating season, winged virgin Polyergus queens accompany the workers in the raiding columns. During the raid, the virgin queens release a pheromone that attracts males that quickly mate with the queens. We report the identification, synthesis, and bioassay of the sex attractant pheromone of the queens as an approximately 1:6 ratio of (R)-3-ethyl-4-methylpentan-1-ol and methyl 6-methylsalicylate. The ants produce exclusively the (R)-enantiomer of the alcohol, and the (S)-enantiomer has no biological activity, neither inhibiting nor increasing attraction to blends of methyl 6-methylsalicylate with the (R)-enantiomer.