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The Bite of the Honeybee: 2-Heptanone Secreted from Honeybee Mandibles during a Bite Acts as a Local Anaesthetic in Insects and Mammals

Honeybees secrete 2-heptanone (2-H) from their mandibular glands when they bite. Researchers have identified several possible functions: 2-H could act as an alarm pheromone to recruit guards and soldiers, it could act as a chemical marker, or it could have some other function. The actual role of 2-H...

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Autores principales: Papachristoforou, Alexandros, Kagiava, Alexia, Papaefthimiou, Chrisovalantis, Termentzi, Aikaterini, Fokialakis, Nikolas, Skaltsounis, Alexios-Leandros, Watkins, Max, Arnold, Gérard, Theophilidis, George
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3472974/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23091624
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047432
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