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J Chem Ecol

Title:		"The Trail-Following Communication in Stylotermes faveolus and S. halumicus (Blattodea, Isoptera, Stylotermitidae)"
Author(s):		Thakur H; Agarwal S; Hradecky J; Sharma G; Li HF; Yang SE; Sehadova H; Chandel RS; Hylis M; Mathur V; Sobotnik J; Sillam-Dusses D;
Address:		"Department of Entomology, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India. Animal-Plant Interactions Lab, Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara College, Benito Juarez Marg, Dhaula Kuan, 110021, New Delhi, India. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, 145 Xingda Rd, 402202, Taichung, Taiwan. Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. sobotnik@ftz.czu.cz. Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. sobotnik@ftz.czu.cz. Laboratory of Experimental and Comparative Ethology, LEEC, UR 4443, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France"
Journal Title:		J Chem Ecol
Year:		2023
Volume:		20230811
Issue:
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.1007/s10886-023-01447-w
ISSN/ISBN:		1573-1561 (Electronic) 0098-0331 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Stylotermitidae appear peculiar among all termites, feeding in trunks of living trees in South Asia only. The difficulty to collect them limits the ability to study them, and they thus still belong to critically unknown groups in respect to their biology. We used a combination of microscopic observations, chemical analysis and behavioural tests, to determine the source and chemical nature of the trail-following pheromone of Stylotermes faveolus from India and S. halumicus from Taiwan. The sternal gland located at the 5th abdominal segment was the exclusive source of the trail-following pheromone in both S. faveolus and S. halumicus, and it is made up of class I, II and III secretory cells. Using gas chromatography coupled mass spectrometry, (3Z)-dodec-3-en-1-ol (DOE) was identified as the trail-following pheromone which elicits strong behavioural responses in workers at a threshold around 10(- 4) ng/cm and 0.1 ng/gland. Our results confirm the switch from complex aldehyde trail-following pheromones occurring in the basal groups to simpler linear alcohols in the ancestor of Kalotermitidae and Neoisoptera"
Keywords:		(3Z)-dodec-3-en-1-ol Neoisoptera Semiochemicals sternal gland;
Notes:		"PublisherThakur, Himanshu Agarwal, Surbhi Hradecky, Jaromir Sharma, Garima Li, Hou-Feng Yang, Shang-En Sehadova, Hana Chandel, Ravinder S Hylis, Mirek Mathur, Vartika Sobotnik, Jan Sillam-Dusses, David eng 111-2313-B-005-021/National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan/ 20233113/Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences CZU/ 2023/08/11 J Chem Ecol. 2023 Aug 11. doi: 10.1007/s10886-023-01447-w"