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A list of and some comments about the trail pheromones of ants

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Ants use many different chemical compounds to communicate with their nestmates. Foraging success depends on how efficiently ants communicate thepresence of food and thus recruit workers to exploit the food resource. Trail pheromones, produced by different exocrine glands, are a key part of ant foragingstrategies. By combing through the literature, we compiled a list of the identity and glandular origin of the chemical compounds found in the trail pheromonesof 75 different ant species. Of the 168 compounds identified, more than 40% are amines. In the subfamily Myrmicinae, trail pheromones are mostly producedin the venom gland, while in the subfamily Formicinae, they come from the rectal gland.
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Xim Cerda, Louise van Oudenhove, Carlos Bernstein, Raphael Boulay. A list of and some comments about the trail pheromones of ants. Natural Product Communications , 2014, 9 (8), pp.1115-1122. ⟨hal-01323051⟩
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