Biosynthesis of formic acid by the poison glands of formicine ants

BBA - General Subjects

Volumn 543, Issue 4, 1978, Pages 484-496

  Hefetz, Abraham ^a   Blum, Murray S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT VENOM; FORMIC ACID; POISON; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; BIOSYNTHESIS; FORMICIN; GLAND; IN VITRO STUDY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL; ANTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FORMIC ACIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TETRAHYDROFOLATES;

EID: 0018078213     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4165(78)90303-3     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Extract of a Letter, Written by Mr. John Wray to the Publisher January 13. 1670. Concerning Some Un-Common Observations and Experiments Made with an Acid Juyce to be Found in Ants
2. Defensive Substances of the Arthropods, Their Isolation and Identification
3. The Hymenopterous Poison Apparatus. VI. Camponotus Pennsylvanicus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
4. Formation of formaldehyde and formate in the bio-oxidation of the methyl group.