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Title:		Chemical ecology: studies from East Africa
Author(s):		Meinwald J; Prestwich GD; Nakanishi K; Kubo I;
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Journal Title:		Science
Year:		1978
Volume:		199
Issue:		4334
Page Number:		1167 - 1173
DOI:		10.1126/science.199.4334.1167
ISSN/ISBN:		0036-8075 (Print) 0036-8075 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), in Nairobi, provides a laboratory at which a multinational group of scientists pursues interdisciplinary research. In collaboration with their colleagues in biology, ICIPE chemists have characterized the sex pheromones of the tick which serves as a vector of East Coast fever and have identified a termite queen-cell-building pheromone. The structure of many anthropod defensive chemicals have been determined; most interesting of these are the trinervitenes, structurally novel diterpenoids from nasute termites. Several highly active insect antifeedants were discovered using a simple bioassay to screen selected East African plants. These antifeedants may provide leads for the development of new insect-control techniques"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEMeinwald, J Prestwich, G D Nakanishi, K Kubo, I eng 1978/03/17 Science. 1978 Mar 17; 199(4334):1167-73. doi: 10.1126/science.199.4334.1167"