Polyergus rufescens

Polyergus rufescens Q-DG Worker repellent produced by slave-making queen Decyl butanoate 60 [111]... 

Although many queen-produced pheromones are actively being studied in ants, particularly in the fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) [10,105-110], chemical identifications remain elusive. However, there have been a few recent advances in ants. The queen of the slave-making species Polyergus rufescens produces de-cyl butanoate 60 that repels host workers when upsurping a colony [111]. Males of Formica lugubris are attracted to alate queens by undecane 61, tridecane 62 and (4Z)-tridec-4-ene 63 [112]. 

Mori A., Grasso D. A., Visicchio R. and Le Moli F. (2000) Colony founding in Polyergus rufescens the role of Dufour s gland. Insectes Soc. 47, 7-10. 

Bonavita-Cougourdan, A., Provost, E., Riviere, G Bagneres, A.-G. and Dusticier, G. (2004). Regulation of cuticular and postpharyngeal hydrocarbons in the slavemaking ant Polyergus rufescens effect of Formica rufibarbis slaves../. Insect Physiol., 50, 285-293. 

J.-L. (1997). Plasticity of the cuticular hydrocarbon profile of the slave-making ant Polyergus rufescens depending on the social environment. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 116B, 287-302. 

Slave-making Polyergus rufescens ants P. rufescens and... 

Polyergus rufescens D Ettorre et al., 2002 Habersetzer and Bonavita-Cougourdan, 1993 Bonavita-Cougourdan et al., 1996 Bonavita-Cougourdan et al., 2004 Discrepancy may depend on the degree of coadaptation among populations... 

Formica sanguinea and Polyergus rufescens and their slaves Formica fusca and Formica ruflbarbis. J. Insect Physiol., 14, 995-1011. 

D Ettorre, P. and Errard, C. (1998). Chemical disguise during colony founding in the dulotic ant Polyergus rufescens Latr. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insect Social Life,... 

D Ettorre, P Errard, C Ibarra, F., Francke, W. and Hefetz, A. (2000). Sneak in or repel your enemy Dufour s gland repellent as a strategy for successful usurpation in the slave-maker Polyergus rufescens. Chemoecology, 10,135-142. 

Habersetzer, C. and Bonavita-Cougourdan, A. (1993). Cuticular spectra in the slavemaking ant Polyergus rufescens and the slave species Formica rufibarbis. Physiol. Entomol., 18, 160-166. 

Mori A., D Ettorre P., and Le Moli, F. (1995). Host nest usurpation and colony foundation in the European amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens Latr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). 

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