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Science 17 March 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4334, pp. 1167 - 1173
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4334.1167
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Chemical Ecology: Studies from East Africa

Jerrold Meinwald 1, Glenn D. Prestwich 2, Koji Nakanishi 3, and Isao Kubo 1

1 Professor of chemistry at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
2 Assistant professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
3 Professor of chemistry at Columbia University, New York City

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), in Nairobi, provides a laboratory at which a multinational group of scientists pursues interdisciplinary research. In collaboration with their colleagues in biology, ICIPE chemists have characterized the sex pheromones of the tick which serves as a vector of East Coast fever and have identified a termite queen-cell-building pheromone. The structure of many anthropod defensive chemicals have been determined; most interesting of these are the trinervitenes, structurally novel diterpenoids from nasute termites. Several highly active insect antifeedants were discovered using a simple bioassay to screen selected East African plants. These antifeedants may provide leads for the development of new insect-control techniques.


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