A hint of frog in the air: Macrolides are volatile pheromones from Madagascar frogs
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
Amphibians are at home in water, but can they also sense volatile compounds in the air? Indeed they can, reports Stefan Schulz. Working with colleague Miguel Vences and Ph.D. students Dennis Poth and Katharina Wollenberg at the University of Brunswick, he has found volatile pheromones in frogs from Madagascar. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, the scientists have now introduced various natural compounds that the frogs apparently use for communication.