Cover Picture: The Sex Attractant Pheromone of Male Brown Rats: Identification and Field Experiment (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 20/2016). Issue 20 (3rd May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Takács, Stephen; Gries, Regine; Zhai, Huimin; Gries, Gerhard
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 55:Issue 20(2016)
• Page Start: 5871
• Page End: 5871
• Publication Date: 2016-05-03
• Subjects: brown rats -- field experiments -- ketones -- pheromones; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201603086
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

Abstract : The male brown rat marks his territory with urine deposits, thereby deterring potential male intruders while retaining females within his deme and attracting wandering females to it. In their Communication on page 6062 ff., G. Gries et al. report the identification and field testing of the urine‐derived sex pheromone, which, when added to food‐baited traps, increases the capture of wild female rats by a factor of ten. The pheromone could improve the efficacy of rat control tactics (picture: S. McCann and S. DeMuth).