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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |