Chemical and ethological studies of the trail pheromone of the ant <i>Manica rubida</i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Attygalle, Athula B.; Cammaerts, Marie-Claire; Cammaerts, Roger; Morgan, E. David; Ollett, D. G.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032.1986.tb00399.x

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“…The species Manica rubida, more primitive than the Myrmica ones, should be studied as for this point of view, with the advantage that its trail pheromone is chemically identical to that of several species of Myrmica [24].…”

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Trail following Learning by Young Myrmica rubra Workers (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Cammaerts

2013

ISRN Entomology

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Ants use chemical trails, laid down on the ground, for recruiting congeners and helping them to return to the nest. The present work shows that young ants, less than one year old, though obviously reacting to the trail pheromone, are unable to efficiently follow a trail. These young ants begin to better walk along a trail when being in presence of trail following older congeners. Later on, they can by themselves rather efficiently follow a trail. Queens removed from their nest correctly move along a trail. The knowledge of the trail pheromone is thus native, while the trail following behavior is both partly native and partly learned. The latter learning is rapid and may be induced and/or enhanced by older trail following nestmates.

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Trail following Learning by Young Myrmica rubra Workers (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Cammaerts

2013

ISRN Entomology

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“…Tetramorium caespitum) both 2,5-dimethylpyrazine and EDMP together comprise the trail pheromone (Attygalle & Morgan, 1983), while in others (e.g. Manica rubida, where both the dimethyl-and trimethylpyrazines are present) EDMP alone is the active compound (Attygalle et al, 1986). No information is yet available on the activity, or lack of it, of dimethyl-and trimethyl-pyrazines on Atta sexdens sexdens trails.…”

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Preferences and differences in the trail pheromone of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens sexdens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Morgan¹,

Keegans²,

Tits³

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Eur. J. Entomol.

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Abstract. The amount of the trail pheromone substance, 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine, of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens sexdens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) increases with increasing size of the ant from 0 to 35 ng per individual. The compounds 2,5-dimethylpyrazine and trimethylpyrazine are also consistently present. Trails of venom gland extracts are followed with unequal fidelity by different castes. Minor workers follow best, mediums least well. Workers walk sinuously on narrow trails and less sinuously on wider trails up to 9 mm. Trails wider than 9 mm are not followed. The optimum concentration of pheromone on synthetic trails lies between 15 and 150 pg cm -1. Given a choice of concentrations at a trail branch, workers always choose the more concentrated. Workers showed slight preference for a trail made with venom gland secretion from their own, over that from an alien colony, but there is no preference for a trail that contains Dufour gland secretion additionally.

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“…This was the first example where the mixture, rather than any one compound comprised the pheromone. By contrast, both 2 and 3 are present in the glands of Manica rubida but only 2 (mean of 7 ng per gland) is active as the trail pheromone (Attygalle et al , 1985). The seed‐collecting ant Messor bouvieri also uses compound 2 in its trails, but it appears that the full pheromone consists of 2 from the venom gland and some unidentified compound from the Dufour gland (Jackson et al , 1989).…”

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Trail pheromones of ants

Morgan

2009

Physiological Entomology

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. The study of trail laying, recruitment of workers and trail-following by worker ants comprises a co-operative study of entomologists and chemists that has resulted in the identification of the chemical nature of such pheromones in many species of five subfamilies of ants. These pheromones may comprise a single compound or, in one exceptional case, a blend of as many as 14 compounds, they may come from a single gland, or in some cases, a combination of two glands. They may be peculiar to a single species or may be shared by a number of species. They exist in the glandular secretion in nanogram to picogram quantities and are detected by workers in minute amounts on a trail. The present state of knowledge of these pheromones and their chemical structures is reviewed. Suitable bioassays and odour perception are discussed and the stereobiology of a few examples is considered.

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Chemical and ethological studies of the trail pheromone of the ant Manica rubida (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Trail following Learning by Young Myrmica rubra Workers (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Trail following Learning by Young Myrmica rubra Workers (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Preferences and differences in the trail pheromone of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens sexdens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Trail pheromones of ants

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