2-Pyrrolidinone, a putative alerting pheromone from rump glands of pronghorn, Antilocapra americana
Abstract
The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, is the sole living member of the family Antilocapridae, a family consisting of living and extinct pronghorns and the extinct merycodonts. These large ungulate herbivores have many different skin glands (Kitchen and O'Gara, 1982). Males and females have a gland on each rump (ischiadic glands) and interdigital glands in all hooves. In addition, males have subauricular glands below each ear and a single median gland on the back. This study investigated volatile compounds from the rump glands of five, free ranging, adult, male pronghorn. Samples were collected on 22 and 23 August 1998 in Modoc Co., CA.
- Publication:
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Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
- Pub Date:
- 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0305-1978(01)00097-7
- Bibcode:
- 2002BioSE..30..361W
- Keywords:
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- Antilocapra americana;
- Antilocapridae;
- Artiodactyla;
- Pronghorn antelope;
- Rump gland;
- Popcorn-like odour