Chemical defense mechanisms of arthropods XXXVI. Stereospecific synthesis of gyrinidal, a nor-sesquiterpenoid aldehyde from gyrinid beetles

✍ Scribed by J. Meinwald; K. Opheim; T. Eisner

• Book ID: 104246635
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 152 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)95640-0

✦ Synopsis

The familiar "whirligig" water beetles of the family Gyrinidae possess a pair of abdominal glands which secrete a milky, odorous fluid when the insect is handled or otherwise mistreated.

Recently, Schlldknecht and co-workers* (studying Gyrinus natator) and Meinwald and co-workers3