ArticleJournal of chemical ecology2009
Nestmate and task cues are influenced and encoded differently within ant cuticular hydrocarbon profiles.
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- Oxytocin/vasopressin-like peptide inotocin regulates cuticular hydrocarbon synthesis and water balancing in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- The cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of honey bee workers develop via a socially-modulated innate process.eLife · 2019Article
- Learning Distinct Chemical Labels of Nestmates in Ants.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
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- Location-specific cuticular hydrocarbon signals in a social insect.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
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Abstract
Insect cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are primarily antidesiccation agents, but they also play crucial roles in intra- and interspecific communication, especially among social Hymenoptera. The complex CHC profiles of social insects have often been compared among individuals, kin, nestmates, colonies, and species. In the ant Formica exsecta, only the (Z)-9-alkene part of the CHC profile encodes the nestmate signal. Here, we showed that the other major part of the CHC profile with n-alkane components is influenced strongly by the task a worker performs (foraging vs nonforaging). This part of the profile is independent of the nestmate signal. Therefore, the CHC profile of F. exsecta workers is composed of two independent parts: a colony-specific (Z)-9-alkene profile under genetic influence and an environmentally influenced task-related n-alkane profile. The dissociating of the CHC profile into two or more independent parts has implications for the analysis and interpretation of past and future CHC studies.
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