Application of computer-based pattern recognition procedures in the study of biological samples. Comparison of the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of different colonies of the black imported fire ant

Brill, Jeffrey H.; Mar, T.; Mayfield, Howard T.; Bertsch, W.

doi:10.1039/an9861100711

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“…For many insects these hydrocarbons serve additional roles including contact sex pheromones and species, caste and nestmate recognition cues Blomquist et al, 1987;Espelie et al, 1991;Howard, 1993). Cuticular hydrocarbons have been shown to be important components in the process of nestmate recognition for ants, honey bees and termites Brill et al, 1986;Bonavita-Cougourdan et al, 1987;Vander Meer et al, 1989a;Getz and Page, 1991;Breed and Julian, 1992). Additional evidence that these surface hydrocarbons play an important role in nestmate recognition is provided by the fact that several heterospecific insects that are able to integrate into social insect colonies have cuffcular hydrocarbon profiles that are congruent with those of their hosts (Howard et al, 1980(Howard et al, , 1990Vander Meer and Wojcik, 1982;Espelie and Hermann, 1988;Vander Meer et al, 1989b).…”

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Workers and queens of the European hornetVespa crabro L. have colony-specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

1995

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SummaryCuticular hydrocarbons were extracted from sixty individual workers from six colonies of Vespa crabro L. and analyzed by combined gas-chromatography/mass spectrometry. Discriminant analysis of the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of workers and queens showed that the wasps could be grouped by colony and by caste. Stepwise discriminant analysis selected the components which were weighted most heavily in these analyses. Different combinations of cuticular hydrocarbons were important in grouping workers by colony, queens and workers by colony, and workers and queens by caste.

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Workers and queens of the European hornetVespa crabro L. have colony-specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

1995

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Discriminant analysis of cuticular hydrocarbons of social waspPolistes exclamans viereck and surface hydrocarbons of its nest paper and pedicel

1992

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The articular lipids were analyzed from individualPolistes exclamans workers collected from 10 nests. Surface lipids were also recovered from the paper and pedicels of these nests. Twenty-two hydrocarbons were identified in these lipid fractions. The major components of the wasp cuticular lipids weren-heptacosane,n-nonacosane, methylhentriacontane, and methyltritriacontane. Discriminant analysis of the hydrocarbon profiles of the adult wasps showed that the wasps group together according to their respective colonies. Several colonies from the same geographical location clustered more closely together than colonies from diverse locations. The nest papers and pedicels did not group with the wasps from their respective colonies, but the nest papers clustered together separately, as did the nest pedicels.

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Individual, geographical and experimental variation of cuticular hydrocarbons of the ant cataglyphis cursor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Their use in nest and subspecies recognition

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Lenoir

Clément

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Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

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Application of computer-based pattern recognition procedures in the study of biological samples. Comparison of the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of different colonies of the black imported fire ant

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Workers and queens of the European hornetVespa crabro L. have colony-specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Workers and queens of the European hornetVespa crabro L. have colony-specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Discriminant analysis of cuticular hydrocarbons of social waspPolistes exclamans viereck and surface hydrocarbons of its nest paper and pedicel

Individual, geographical and experimental variation of cuticular hydrocarbons of the ant cataglyphis cursor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Their use in nest and subspecies recognition

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