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Aggressive alarm pheromone:Pheromone Resources

Aggressive alarm pheromone:

Trail and alarm communication in ant Aneuretus simoni are mediated by the secretions of the sternal and pygidial glands, respectively. The sternal gland produces a relatively long-lived mass recruitment pheromone. The pygidial gland opens between the 6th and 7th tergites and produces a secretion that releases aggressive alarm (Traniello and Jayasuriya,1981).

Reference:

Traniello, J. F. and Jayasuriya, A. K. 1981. Chemical communication in the primitive antAneuretus simoni: The role of the sternal and pygidial glands.Journal of chemical ecology, 7(6), 1023-1033.

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Chemicals used for communication between the organisms are known as semio-chemicals or info-chemicals. These chemicals are also called “ assembling scents” by Kettlewell (1946) from the Greek Pherein ( to carry) and hormone (to excite, stimulate) by Karlson and Butenandt (1959). Further Kirschenblatt (1957) proposed the term “telegones”. Micklem (1959) termed it as “pherormone” instead of pheromone. Karlson and Luscher (1959) have given a more scientific clarification for the use of the term pheromone.