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Octadecanolide
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<h2 id="occurrence">Occurrence</h2> <p>Several species of <a href="/facts/Bee/HglXpXty">bees</a> (such as some of genera <i><a href="/facts/Colletes/DQX1XBde">Colletes</a>, <a href="/facts/Halictus/0Yh8s7IB">Halictus</a>, <a href="/facts/Lasioglossum/kwkzhNom">Lasioglossum</a></i>) and <a href="/facts/Butterflies/qlSgwlRx">butterflies</a> (such as some of genus <i><a href="/facts/Heliconius/ktDMEUNl">Heliconius</a></i>) use octadecanolide as a <a href="/facts/Pheromone/ymEDICw3">pheromone</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Dufour%27s_gland/QSE00Tuu">Dufour's gland</a> of bees in the <a href="/facts/Halictinae/JR5ufRrc">Halictinae</a> <a href="/facts/Subfamily/2QPtfDS4">subfamily</a>, contains octadecanolide along with other <a href="/facts/Macrocyclic/4GPougjf">macrocyclic</a> lactones, which could be used for a range of different applications like nest building, <a href="/facts/Larva/GKo2FIew">larval</a> food and chemical communication.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>octadecanolide in Pherobase <a href="https://pherobase.com/database/compound/compounds-detail-18-octadecanolide.php" target="_blank">https://pherobase.com/database/compound/compounds-detail-18-octadecanolide.php</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Hefetz, Abraham; Blum, Murray; Eickwort, George; Wheeler, James (1978). "Chemistry of the dufour's gland secretion of halictine bees". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B. 61 (1): 129–132. doi:10.1016/0305-0491(78)90229-8. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Johansson, Ingela (1982). "Systematic relationship of halictinae bees based on the pattern of macrocyclic lactones in the Dufour gland secretion". Insect Biochemistry. 12 (2): 161–170. doi:10.1016/0020-1790(82)90004-X. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Mitra, Aniruddha (2013). "Function of the Dufour's gland in solitary and social Hymenoptera". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 35: 33–58. doi:10.3897/JHR.35.4783. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897%2FJHR.35.4783" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3897%2FJHR.35.4783</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>