Exocrine chemistry of the myrmicine ant
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E. David Morgan; Sarah J. Keegans; Johan Billen
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Minor workers of the ant Zacryptocerus pusillus have unusual exocrine secretions in both their mandibular and Dufour glands. The mandibular glands contain a 3:1 mixture of 4-heptanone and 4-heptanol, a mixture found only in the related species ZΓ· variansΓ· The Dufour gland contains a mixture of 13 a