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Cover Picture: Maculatic Acids—Sex Attractant Pheromone Components of Bald‐Faced Hornets (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 36/2018)
Author(s) -
Ren Weiwu,
Gries Regine,
McCaughey Catherine,
Derstine Nathan,
Alamsetti Santosh K.,
Kurita Kenji L.,
Tu Lorna,
Linington Roger G.,
Britton Robert,
Gries Gerhard
Publication year - 2018
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.201808278
Subject(s) - sex pheromone , pheromone , cover (algebra) , ecology , biology , zoology , engineering , mechanical engineering
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).