Identification of Tsetse Attractants from Excretory Products of a Wild Host Animal, Syncerus caffer
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Tropical Insect Science
- Vol. 7 (1) , 5-9
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742758400003027
Abstract
Urine from the buffalo, Syncerus caffer, a natural host of the tsetse, has been shown previously to be a potent olfactory attractant for tsetse in the field. The attractant compounds have been found to be extractable into dichloromethane. Fractionation of the extracts by liquid flash chromatography yielded four fractions one of which gave a seven-fold increase in trap catches in the field compared to the control traps. Gas chromatographic and gas chromatography-mass spectrometric analysis of this fraction revealed the presence of seven simple phenols including phenol itself.Keywords
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