Chemical defence in the termite Ancistrotermes cavithorax: ancistrodial and ancistrofuran
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 9,p. 410-411
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000410
Abstract
Soldiers of the termite Ancistrotermes cavithorax produce terpenoid defence secretions, but whereas the minor soldiers produce ancistrodial (1) exclusively, the major soldiers secrete ancistrofuran (6), together with (4) and (5).This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: