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Science 7 January 1966:
Vol. 151. no. 3706, pp. 79 - 80
DOI: 10.1126/science.151.3706.79
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Cyclopentanoid Terpene Biosynthesis in a Phasmid Insect and in Catmint

Jerrold Meinwald 1, George M. Happ 1, John Labows 1, and Thomas Eisner 1

1 Department of Chemistry and Division of Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

The stick insect, Anisomorpha buprestoides, and the catmint, Nepeta cataria, produce closely related cyclopentanoid terpenes, anisomorphal and nepetalactone. Tracer experiments with isotopes indicate that anisomorphal is synthesized by the walking stick from normal terpene precursors (acetate or mevalonate). In the catmint plant, isolated leaf disks synthesized nepetalactone, utilizing the same precursors.


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