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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Jan 1998

Isolation and Identification of 2-Phenoxyethanol from a Ballpoint Pen Ink as a Trail-Following Substance of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki and Reticulitermes sp.

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Page Range: 97 – 105
DOI: 10.18474/0749-8004-33.1.97
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Isolation and identification of 2-phenoxyethanol from a ballpoint pen ink as a termite trail-following substance was accomplished by using trail-following bioassays, column chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This chemical elicited trail-following in both C. formosanus Shiraki and Reticulitermes sp.

Copyright: © 1998 Georgia Entomological Society, Inc.

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2Department of Entomology.

3Department of Biochemistry.

Received: 04 Mar 1997
Accepted: 04 Sept 1997
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