caa a22 4500 445389729 CHVBK 20180317143042.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00049-011-0071-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00049-011-0071-9 Trail-following behaviour in two Aphaenogaster ants [Elektronische Daten] [Alain Lenoir, Amélie Benoist, Abraham Hefetz, Wittko Francke, Xim Cerdá, Raphaël Boulay] In the course of our studies on the chemical ecology of the widely distributed Mediterranean ant Aphaenogaster senilis, we found that trail following is triggered by extracts of the poison gland and Dufour's gland. To assess the specificity of the trail pheromone, we examined whether a cross-reaction exists between trails of A. senilis and the closely related species A. iberica. Specificity seemed to differ amongst these two species, because workers of A. senilis did not follow trails of A. iberica, whereas the latter followed trails made by both species. Chemical analyses of the glandular contents reveal that Dufour's glands of both species contain mainly alkanes and alkenes exhibiting species-specific profiles. However, differences in the poison gland content of the two species were dramatic, with A. senilis showing high amounts of alkaloids that were completely absent in A. iberica. Springer Basel AG, 2011 Aphaenogaster senilis nationallicence Aphaenogaster iberica nationallicence Trail pheromone nationallicence Dufour's gland nationallicence Poison gland nationallicence Alkaloids nationallicence Hydrocarbons nationallicence Lenoir Alain IRBI, UMR CNRS 6035, Université François Rabelais, Parc de Grandmont, 37200, Tours, France aut Benoist Amélie IRBI, UMR CNRS 6035, Université François Rabelais, Parc de Grandmont, 37200, Tours, France aut Hefetz Abraham Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel aut Francke Wittko Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 6, 20146, Hamburg, Germany aut Cerdá Xim Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda Americo Vespucio, 41092, Seville, Spain aut Boulay Raphaël Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda Americo Vespucio, 41092, Seville, Spain aut Chemoecology SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 21/2(2011-06-01), 83-88 0937-7409 21:2<83 2011 21 49 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-011-0071-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-011-0071-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lenoir Alain IRBI, UMR CNRS 6035, Université François Rabelais, Parc de Grandmont, 37200, Tours, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Benoist Amélie IRBI, UMR CNRS 6035, Université François Rabelais, Parc de Grandmont, 37200, Tours, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hefetz Abraham Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Francke Wittko Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 6, 20146, Hamburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cerdá Xim Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda Americo Vespucio, 41092, Seville, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boulay Raphaël Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda Americo Vespucio, 41092, Seville, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Chemoecology SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 21/2(2011-06-01), 83-88 0937-7409 21:2<83 2011 21 49 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer