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THE alarm pheromones of certain species of ant provide extraordinarily favourable tools with which to examine the relationships between molecular characteristics and biological activity.
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WRIGHT, R., BRAND, J. Correlation of Ant Alarm Pheromone Activity with Molecular Vibration. Nature 239, 225–226 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239225a0
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