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Isolation of Mandibular Gland Reservoir Contents from Bornean 'Exploding Ants' (Formicidae) for Volatilome Analysis by GC-MS and MetaboliteDetector
 

Isolation of Mandibular Gland Reservoir Contents from Bornean 'Exploding Ants' (Formicidae) for Volatilome Analysis by GC-MS and MetaboliteDetector

Article DOI: 10.3791/57652-v 11:07 min August 26th, 2018
August 26th, 2018

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Minor workers of the ant species Colobopsis explodens are dissected to isolate the wax-like content stored in their hypertrophied mandibular gland reservoirs for subsequent solvent-extraction and analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The annotation and identification of volatile constituents using the open-source software MetaboliteDetector is also described.

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Mandibular Gland Reservoir Volatilome Analysis GC-MS Metabolite Profiling Ant Chemical Ecology Insect Metabolomics Dissection Isolation Volatile Organic Compounds
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