Mantellas Use Airborn Chemicals to Communicate!

[findi]

Hi all,

Mantellas have been found to communicate vie airborns pheromones; the only amphibians known to do so. Interesting new chemicals involved:

First Airborne Amphibian Pheromone | Chemical & Engineering News

Enjoy, Frank

[Ed]

Frank,

Olfactory communication (and territorial detection) has been hypothesized and indirectly thought to occur in anurans for quite awhile see for example http://justinyeager.org/papers/SmellOfSuccess.pdf with the review of the prior articles on it.

Ed

[a1pha]

Interesting

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[sahona]

the species tested wasn't a Mantella, as you can see in the photo. It was a species from the Mantidactylus betsileanus complex

[winstonamc]

well that was the first and last time i read an article on chemical and engineering news

(no offense to chemists and engineers among us)

[dom]

Originally Posted by winstonamc

well that was the first and last time i read an article on chemical and engineering news

(no offense to chemists and engineers among us)

Why would you say that? The article did not say mantella that was the OP mistake. I read the magazine every week and it has great articles if you are interested in chemistry.

Originally Posted by findi

Hi all,

Mantellas have been found to communicate vie airborns pheromones; the only amphibians known to do so. Interesting new chemicals involved:

First Airborne Amphibian Pheromone | Chemical & Engineering News

Enjoy, Frank

Originally Posted by sahona

the species tested wasn't a Mantella, as you can see in the photo. It was a species from the Mantidactylus betsileanus complex

The article never once says its using Mantella but instead uses Mantellidae which is a family of anurans found only in Madagascar and would encompass Mantella, and Mantidactylus betsileanus.


taken from the photo "Researchers discovered that Mantellidae frogs use two new airborne pheromones, 8-methyl-2-nonanol and phoracantholide J, which are made in their femoral glands. Some also produce a previously unreported natural product called gephyromantolide A."

AmphibiaWeb - Mantellidae

[winstonamc]

Originally Posted by dom

Why would you say that? The article did not say mantella that was the OP mistake.

Sorry, that was a joke about the publication not the post; just can't imagine why I would ever be reading that again (that's assuming that a chemical and engineering publication doesn't develop an abiding affection for amphibians in the future)