Cover Picture: Maculatic Acids—Sex Attractant Pheromone Components of Bald‐Faced Hornets (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 36/2018)

Bald‐faced hornets build massive aerial nests tended by female workers. In late summer, they rear virgin queens. In their Communication on page 11618 ff., R. G. Linington, R. Britton, G. Gries et al. report that these queens produce sex pheromone components, termed maculatic acids, that attract male...

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Published in:Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018-09, Vol.57 (36), p.11473-11473
Main Authors: Ren, Weiwu, Gries, Regine, McCaughey, Catherine, Derstine, Nathan, Alamsetti, Santosh K., Kurita, Kenji L., Tu, Lorna, Linington, Roger G., Britton, Robert, Gries, Gerhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
bald-faced hornets
gas chromatography
pheromones
yellowjackets
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Summary:Bald‐faced hornets build massive aerial nests tended by female workers. In late summer, they rear virgin queens. In their Communication on page 11618 ff., R. G. Linington, R. Britton, G. Gries et al. report that these queens produce sex pheromone components, termed maculatic acids, that attract males. This first insight into the mechanisms underlying sexual signaling in bald‐faced hornets provides impetus to identify sex pheromones in other yellowjackets, a group of social insects of vast economic and ecological importance (picture: S. McCann and S. Takács).
ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.201808278