Reptilian chemistry: Characterization of a family of dianeackerone-related steroidal esters from a crocodile secretion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 12251-12256

  Yang, Zhicai ^a   Whyte, Authrine ^a   Attygalle, Athula B ^a   Weldon, Paul J ^b   Eisner, Thomas ^a   Meinwald, Jerrold ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Cholesterol; Osteolaemus tetraspis; Paracloacal gland

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTANOL; CHOLESTEROL; KETONE DERIVATIVE; PHEROMONE;

ALLIGATOR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ESTERIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GLAND; SKIN SECRETION;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ESTERS; KETONES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SKIN; STEROIDS;

ALLIGATOR; OSTEOLAEMUS TETRASPIS; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033607185     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.22.12251     Document Type: Article

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