Defensive production of quinoline by a phasmid insect (Oreophoetes peruana)
| Autor: | Thomas Eisner, Athula B. Attygalle, Jerrold Meinwald, Scott R. Smedley, R C Morgan, Kithsiri Herath |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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animal structures Insecta Physiology media_common.quotation_subject Allomone Zoology Insect Aquatic Science Exocrine Glands biology.animal Botany Animals Nymph Molecular Biology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common Cockroach integumentary system biology Behavior Animal fungi biology.organism_classification Phasmatodea Insect Science Quinolines Animal Science and Zoology Female Monomorium Moulting Lycosa |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of experimental biology. 200(Pt 19) |
| ISSN: | 0022-0949 |
| Popis: | Adults and nymphs of the Peruvian stick insect Oreophoetes peruana (order Phasmatodea) have a pair of thoracic glands from which they discharge a malodorous fluid when disturbed. The secretion contains a single volatile component, quinoline. Quinoline has not been reported previously from an animal source. The compound proved repellent or topically irritant in assays with ants, spiders, cockroaches and frogs. O. peruana nymphs, at molting, do not extricate the shed cuticular lining of the glands, thereby managing not to lose their secretory supply when they cast their skin. They are able, as a consequence, to discharge secretion even while still teneral after molting. |
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