The major component of the trail pheromone of T. impurum is methyl 2-hydroxy-6-methylbenzoate (methyl 6-methyl salicylate). The poison reservoir of each worker contains about 1.0 ng of this substance in the venom. To ascertain the degree of specificity of the substance as pheromone and to determine any correlation between structure and biological activity, 38 synthetic analogs were tested in a bioassay. Sixteen compounds showed activity at 100 ng per artificial trail. The importance of the methyl group and methyl ester were demonstrated, while the hydroxyl group has a relatively small effect. © 1990 Plenum Publishing Corporation.
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Morgan, E. D., Jackson, B. D., Ollett, D. G., & Sales, G. W. (1990). Trail pheromone of the ant Tetramorium impurum and model compounds: Structure-activity comparisons. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 16(12), 3493–3510. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00982113
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