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Title:		Volatile Terpenes and Terpenoids from Workers and Queens of Monomorium chinense (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Author(s):		Zhao R; Lu L; Shi Q; Chen J; He Y;
Address:		"Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510642, China. 13570453805@163.com. Plant Protection Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510640, China. 13570453805@163.com. Plant Protection Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510640, China. lhlu@gdppri.com. Plant Protection Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510640, China. shiqingxing163@163.com. National Biological Control Laboratory, Southeast Area, Agriculture Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 59 Lee Road, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA. jian.chen@ars.usda.gov. Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510642, China. yrhe@scau.edu.cn"
Journal Title:		Molecules
Year:		2018
Volume:		20181101
Issue:		11
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.3390/molecules23112838
ISSN/ISBN:		1420-3049 (Electronic) 1420-3049 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Twenty-one volatile terpenes and terpenoids were found in Monomorium chinense Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a native Chinese ant, by using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas-phase chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS), which makes this ant one of the most prolific terpene producers in insect. A sesquiterpene with unknown structure (terpene 1) was the main terpene in workers and neocembrene in queens. Terpenes and terpenoids were detected in poison, Dufour's and mandibular glands of both workers and queens. Worker ants raised on a terpene-free diet showed the same terpene profile as ants collected in the field, indicating that de novo terpene and terpenoid synthesis occurs in M. chinense"
Keywords:		Animals Ants/*chemistry Exocrine Glands/chemistry Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Solid Phase Microextraction Terpenes/*chemistry/isolation & purification Volatile Organic Compounds/*chemistry/isolation & purification Monomorium chinense glandular so;
Notes:		"MedlineZhao, Rui Lu, Lihua Shi, Qingxing Chen, Jian He, Yurong eng 2015BAD08B02/L. H. Lu/ Switzerland 2018/11/06 Molecules. 2018 Nov 1; 23(11):2838. doi: 10.3390/molecules23112838"