Postpharyngeal gland

Meskali M., Bonavita-Cougourdan A., Provost E., Bagneres A.-G., Dusticier G. and Clement J. L. (1995) Mechanism underlying cuticular hydrocarbon homogeneity in the ant Camponotus vagus (Scop.) (Hymenoptera Formicidae) role of postpharyngeal glands. J. Chem. Ecol. 21, 1127-1148. 

Soroker V., Vienne C., Nowbahari E., and Hefetz A. (1994) The postpharyngeal gland as a gestalt organ for nestmate recognition in the ant Cataglyphis niger. Naturwissenschaften 81, 510-513. 

Bagneres, A.-G and Morgan, E. D. (1991). The postpharyngeal glands and the cuticle of Formicidae contain the same characteristic hydrocarbons. Experientia, 47, 106-111. 

Figure 5.2 Photo of postpharyngeal glands of Camponotus fellah (right) and Aphaenogaster senilis (left). With permission of Alain Lenoir (IRBI,Tours).

Cabrera, A., Williams, D., Hernandez, J.V., Caetano, F.H. and Jaffe, K. (2004). Metapleural- and postpharyngeal-gland secretions from workers of the ants Solenopsis invicta and S. geminata. Chem. Biodivers., 1, 303-311. 

Dahbi, A., Lenoir, A., Tinaud, A., Taghizadeh, T., Francke, W. and Hefetz, A. (1996). Chemistry of the postpharyngeal gland secretion and its implication for the phytogeny of the Iberian Cataglyphis species (Hymenoptera Formicidae). 

Herzner, G., Goetder, W., Kroiss, J., Purea, A., Webb, A. G Jakob, P.M., Rossler, W. and Strohm, E. (2007a). Males of a solitary wasp possess a postpharyngeal gland. Arthropod Struct. Develop., 36, 123-133. 

Herzner, G., Schmitt, T., Peschke, K, Hilpert, A. and Strohm, E. (2007b). Food wrapping with the postpharyngeal gland secretion by females of the European beewolf Philanthus triangulum. J. Chem. Ecol., 33, 849-859. 

Schoeters, E. and Billen, J. (1997). The postpharyngeal gland in Dinoponera ants... 

Soroker, V., Hefetz, A., Cojocaru, M., Billen, J., Franke, S. and Franke, W. (1995a). Structural and chemical ontogeny of the postpharyngeal gland of the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. Physiol. Entomol., 20, 323-329. 

Strohm, E., Herzner, G. and Goettler, W. (2007). A social gland in a solitary wasp The postpharyngeal gland of female European beewolves (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae). Arthropod Struct. Develop., 36,113-122. 

Vander Meer, R.K., Glancey, B.M. and Lofgren, C.S. (1982). Biochemical changes in the crop, oesophagus and postpharyngeal gland of colony-founding red imported fire ant queens (Solenopsis invicta). Insect Biochem., 12,123-127. 

Oldham, N. J., Morgan, E.D., Agosti, D. and Wehner, R. (1999). Species recognition from postpharyngeal gland contents of ants of the Cataglyphis bicolor group. J. Chem. Ecol., 25,1383-1393. 

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