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Nasonov pheromone: a standalone construct

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Nasonovpheromone1 CONSTRUCTNasonov pheromonePICKETT ET AL. · 1980

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Chemical ecology of bees

The home-and-come-here scent of worker bees

The Nasonov pheromone is the attractant scent that worker honey bees release from a gland near the tip of the abdomen, exposing it and fanning the odour to orient nestmates toward the nest entrance, a settling swarm, or a water source. Pickett and colleagues' 1980 chemical characterisation identified it as a blend of terpenoid components, chiefly geraniol with citral and nerolic and geranic acids. The referent is this multi-component orientation signal, studied by identifying its chemistry and by testing how the blend attracts bees in the field.[1]

Unit
A multi-component terpenoid attractant released by the Nasonov gland
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Characterised by chemical analysis of the gland's components and by bioassays of how synthetic blends attract and orient bees

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References

  1. Pickett, J. A., Williams, I. H., Martin, A. P., & Smith, M. C. (1980). Nasonov pheromone of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Part I. Chemical characterization. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 6(2), 425–434. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402919

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