First Biosynthetic Studies on Trail Pheromones in Ants

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 395-397

  Bestmann, Hans Jürgen ^a   Übler, Elke ^a   Hölldobler, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Lipids; Pheromones

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031000924     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199703951     Document Type: Article

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