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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 731-740Publisher
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DOI: 10.1023/B:JOEC.0000028428.53797.cb
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quinones; attractants; diplopod-defensive secretions; benzoquinones; dung beetles; necrophagy; Diplopoda; Scarabaeidae
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2-Methyl-1,4-benzoquinone (toluquinone) and 2-methoxy-3-methyl1,4-benzoquinone are the most common components of defensive secretions of juliform millipedes (Diplopoda: Juliformia). A natural and a synthetic millipede-defensive secretion composed of these two substances attract dung beetles of a few Onthophagus species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) that feed mainly on freshly dead millipedes. This olfactory mechanism and adaptation to the toxic effects of quinones enables them to be the first and exclusive users of this resource.
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