{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Lopes LE"],"funding":["Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft","Howard Hughes Medical Institute","National Institute of General Medical Sciences","NIGMS NIH HHS","Division of Graduate Education"],"pagination":["1-10"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9941220"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["49(1-2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Ants communicate via an arsenal of different pheromones produced in a variety of exocrine glands. For example, ants release alarm pheromones in response to danger to alert their nestmates and to trigger behavioral alarm responses. Here we characterize the alarm pheromone and the alarm response of the clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi, a species that is amenable to laboratory studies but for which no pheromones have been identified. During an alarm response, ants quickly become unsettled, leave their nest pile, and are sometimes initially attracted to the source of alarm, but ultimately move away from it. We find that the alarm pheromone is released from the head of the ant and identify the putative alarm pheromone as a blend of two compounds found in the head, 4-methyl-3-heptanone and 4-met"],"journal":["Journal of chemical ecology"],"pubmed_title":["The Alarm Pheromone and Alarm Response of the Clonal Raider Ant."],"pmcid":["PMC9941220"],"funding_grant_id":["R35 GM127007","R35GM127007","Gilliam Fellowship","Faculty Scholar Award","DGE 194642"],"pubmed_authors":["Frank ET","Lopes LE","Schmitt T","Kronauer DJC","Karpati Z"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The Alarm Pheromone and Alarm Response of the Clonal Raider Ant.","description":"Ants communicate via an arsenal of different pheromones produced in a variety of exocrine glands. For example, ants release alarm pheromones in response to danger to alert their nestmates and to trigger behavioral alarm responses. Here we characterize the alarm pheromone and the alarm response of the clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi, a species that is amenable to laboratory studies but for which no pheromones have been identified. During an alarm response, ants quickly become unsettled, leave their nest pile, and are sometimes initially attracted to the source of alarm, but ultimately move away from it. We find that the alarm pheromone is released from the head of the ant and identify the putative alarm pheromone as a blend of two compounds found in the head, 4-methyl-3-heptanone and 4-met","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Feb","modification":"2026-07-14T16:58:50.6Z","creation":"2026-06-21T03:09:12.64Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9941220","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36759430"],"doi":["10.1007/s10886-023-01407-4"]}}