| Title |
Hydrogen peroxide as a new defensive compound in “benzoyl cyanide” producing polydesmid millipedes
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|---|---|
| Published in |
The Science of Nature, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00114-017-1435-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Yasumasa Kuwahara, Takuya Yamaguchi, Yayoi Ichiki, Tsutomu Tanabe, Yasuhisa Asano |
| Abstract |
Hydrogen peroxide was newly and simultaneously demonstrated with well-known hydrogen cyanide as a component of defensive secretions of "benzoyl cyanide" producing polydesmid millipedes. Presence of hydrogen peroxide was successively evidenced by Trinder reagent's spray with colorless as well as oily smears of defensive secretions containing benzoyl cyanide and hydrogen cyanide by alkaline picrate paper treatment. Linear correlation was demonstrated between quantities of hydrogen peroxide and benzoyl cyanide. By qualitative assay, seven benzoyl cyanide containing polydesmidans (six species of adults and one species of a nymph at stadium I) tested positive to Trinder reagent, indicative of the presence of hydrogen peroxide (together with hydrogen cyanide), while two cyanogenic species without benzoyl cyanide exhibited negative responses to the reagent. Two types of millipedes were elucidated as species of cyanogenic Polydesmida. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 8 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 38% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 13% |
| Researcher | 1 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 2 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 25% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 13% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 13% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 2 | 25% |
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