Anthopleurine: A Sea Anemone Alarm Pheromone
- 1 August 1975
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 189 (4200) , 386-388
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.238286
Abstract
The sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima responds with characteristic contraction to a pheromone released by wounded conspecifics. The alarm pheromone was isolated by ion-exchange chromatography and identified by chemical and spectroscopic methods as the quaternary ammonium ion (3-carboxy-2,3-dihydroxy- N , N , N -trimethyl)-1-propanaminium. Median effective concentration of the crystalline pheromone is 3.5 × 10 -10 mole per liter of seawater.Keywords
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