Phenylacetonitrile in locusts facilitates an antipredator defense by acting as an olfactory aposematic signal and cyanide precursor

Jianing Wei; Wenbo Shao; Minmin Cao; Jin Ge; Pengcheng Yang; Li Chen; Xianhui Wang; Le Kang

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav5495

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Phenylacetonitrile in locusts facilitates an antipredator defense by acting as an olfactory aposematic signal and cyanide precursor

View ORCID ProfileJianing Wei ¹,
Wenbo Shao¹,²,
Minmin Cao¹,³,
Jin Ge¹,³,
View ORCID ProfilePengcheng Yang¹,²,
Li Chen¹,
View ORCID ProfileXianhui Wang ¹,* and
View ORCID ProfileLe Kang ¹,²,³,*

¹State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.
²Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China.
³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: lkang{at}ioz.ac.cn (L.K.); wangxh{at}ioz.ac.cn (X.W.)

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Science Advances 23 Jan 2019:
Vol. 5, no. 1, eaav5495
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav5495

Jianing Wei

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

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Wenbo Shao

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

2Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China.

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Minmin Cao

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.

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Jin Ge

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.

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Pengcheng Yang

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

2Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China.

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Li Chen

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

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Xianhui Wang

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

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For correspondence: lkang@ioz.ac.cn wangxh@ioz.ac.cn

Le Kang

1State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China.

2Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China.

3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China.

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For correspondence: lkang@ioz.ac.cn wangxh@ioz.ac.cn

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