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Cover Picture: The Sex Attractant Pheromone of Male Brown Rats: Identification and Field Experiment (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 20/2016)
Author(s) -
Takács Stephen,
Gries Regine,
Zhai Huimin,
Gries Gerhard
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201603086
Subject(s) - pheromone , sex pheromone , zoology , identification (biology) , biology , ecology
The male brown rat marks his territory with urine deposits, thereby deterring potential male intruders while retaining females within his deme and attracting wandering females to it. In their Communication on page 6062 ff., G. Gries et al. report the identification and field testing of the urine‐derived sex pheromone, which, when added to food‐baited traps, increases the capture of wild female rats by a factor of ten. The pheromone could improve the efficacy of rat control tactics (picture: S. McCann and S. DeMuth).