ISSN:
1432-136X
Keywords:
Emergency queen rearing
;
Releaser pheromone
;
(E)-9-oxo-2-decenoic acid
;
Dose-dependent 9-ODA effect
;
Honey bee, Apis mellifera
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract In the honey bee colony queen rearing is usually suppressed by releaser effects of the queen's pheromone. This is part of the dominance hierarchy maintaining the monogynous homeostasis. Under queenless conditions, the queen's control over the construction of emergency queen cells by the workers can be substitued by exposure to only one component of the mandibular pheromone secretion of a queen, the main compound (E)-9-oxo-2-decenoic acid. A novel and simple synthesis of (E)-9-oxo-2-decenoic acid is described, and a bioassay was developed by which a dose-dependent effect of synthetic (E)-9-oxo-2-decenoic acid presented on a dummy bee was evaluated.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00265639
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