Sex-Pairing Pheromones in Three Sympatric Neotropical Termite Species (Termitidae: Syntermitinae)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61388963:_____/18:00490860

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0965-x" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0965-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10886-018-0965-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10886-018-0965-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sex-Pairing Pheromones in Three Sympatric Neotropical Termite Species (Termitidae: Syntermitinae)

Original language description

Termite colonies are almost always founded by a pair of winged dispersers, in spite of the high costs and low success rates inherent in independent colony foundation. The dispersal flights of imagoes from natal colonies are followed by mate search, mediated by sex-pairing pheromones. Here, we studied the chemistry of sex-pairing pheromones and the related aspects of mate search in winged imagoes of two facultatively parthenogenetic species, Embiratermes neotenicus and Silvestritermes minutus, and an additional species from the same subfamily, Silvestritermes heyeri. All three species are widespread in the Neotropics, including the rainforests of French Guiana. After the dispersal flight and spontaneous loss of wings, females expose their hypertrophied tergal glands situated under abdominal tergites VIII - X. The females are attractive to males and, upon direct contact, the two sexes form characteristic tandems. Chemical analyses indicated that the females secrete species-specific combinations of unbr

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

ISSN

0098-0331

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

44

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

534-546

UT code for WoS article

000433910600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85046809841