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The enantiomeric composition of monoterpene hydrocarbons in the defensive secretions ofNasutitermes termites (Isoptera): Inter- and intraspecific variations
- Source :
- Chemoecology. 4:120-123
- Publication Year :
- 1993
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1993.
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Abstract
- Frontal gland secretions of termite soldiers of the speciesNasutitermes costalis, N. ephratae, N. nigriceps, N. rippertii, andN. hubbardii were analyzed. The chiral compositions of the monoterpene hydrocarbons were investigated by means of two-dimensional gas chromatography. Two of them, 3-carene andβ-pinene were present in the form of (−)-enantiomers of high purity in the majority of the samples. The other monoterpenes,α-pinene, camphene, sabinene, limonene, andβ-phellandrene, exhibited a great variation in the enantiopurity between different species.α-Pinene and limonene varied significantly even between different colonies within the species.N. costalis was the only species with an invariable composition of the secretion, independent of the locality or origin.
Details
- ISSN :
- 14230445 and 09377409
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chemoecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........af77a9dcc0f2f7dce82313307e4cfa08
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01241682