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What is Chemical Ecology (and why you should care)

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Unique highly hetero-substituted benzenes are defense compounds from tiny springtails. The minute amounts available needed the combination of GC/MS, GC/IR, DFT calculation, and synthesis to arrive at the structures. 🧪 t.co/T6QQe72uiT

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Identification of unique highly hetero-substituted benzenes as chemical weapons of springtails by a combination of trace analytical methods with DFT calculations and synthesis

Springtails (Collembola) are important members of the soil mesofauna. They are small, often less than 1–2 mm in length. A typical escape response of most surface-living species is to jump, using their...

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Springtails are great terpene chemists, but they can also synthesize other stuff. See our analysis of 23 species in iScience and their unique cuticular chemistry. Organic analysis and synthesis are needed to decipher their compounds. t.co/dvoeGLFia8

Springtails are great terpene chemists, but they can also synthesize other stuff. See our analysis of 23 species in iScience and their unique cuticular chemistry. Organic analysis and synthesis are needed to decipher their compounds. t.co/dvoeGLFia8

A unique cuticular hydrocarbon from the springtail Heteromurus nitidus. This new terpene type, a prenylated geranylated diterpene, highlights differences between Collembola and more advanced insects. See our article in J Nat Prod. t.co/z9HQ8WbIRm

Nitidane: An Irregular Prenylated Diterpene from the Cuticle of the Springtail Heteromurus nitidus

Collembola are closely related to insects, but our knowledge of their often unique chemistry is limited. Here we report the identification of the epicuticular lipid nitidane, representing a novel clas...

Colaboramos em um lindo estudo sobre especiação em borboletas #Heliconiuswww.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits - Nature

Genomic studies of Heliconius butterflies provide evidence that Heliconius elevatus is a hybrid species, and that its speciation was driven by introgression of traits from Heliconius melpomene in...

Socialane, the first cyclic regular [9]-terpene was synthesized and identified by us as cuticular hydrocarbon of the tiny springtail Hypogastrura socialis. If you are interested its stereoselective synthesis, see doi.org/10.1002/chem... in Chemistry Eur. J.

Volatile salinilactones, produced by the bacterium Salinispora, target disulfide-isomerases. See doi.org/10.1002/advs... in Advanced Science, by K. Jerye et al. of the @BronstrupLab. This is one of the first studies describing how bacterial volatiles act.

The first issue of the Journal of Natural Products this year starts with our cover illustration. pubs.acs.org/toc/jnprdf/8...