Pyrazines from bacteria and ants: convergent chemistry within an ecological niche

Ants use pheromones to coordinate their communal activity. Volatile pyrazines, for instance, mediate food resource gathering and alarm behaviors in different ant species. Here we report that leaf-cutter ant-associated bacteria produce a family of pyrazines that includes members previously identified...

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Autores principales: Silva-Junior, Eduardo A., Ruzzini, Antonio C., Paludo, Camila R., Nascimento, Fabio S., Currie, Cameron R., Clardy, Jon, Pupo, Mônica T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5803209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29416082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20953-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5803209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29416082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20953-6

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