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Table 1 Components of the cuticular hydrocarbons of Polistes metricus

From: Shared genes related to aggression, rather than chemical communication, are associated with reproductive dominance in paper wasps (Polistes metricus)

Putative ID

Retention time (min)

Carbon chain length

Molecular weight

p-value

Pentacosane*

27.6

25

352

0.004

n-octacosane*

34.6

28

394

0.006

n-nonacosane*

37.0

29

408

0.006

11-, 13-, & 15-methylnonacosane*

37.6

30

422

0.03

n-triacontane*

39.5

30

422

0.007

n-hentriacontane*

41.1

31

436

NS

x-methyltriacontane (?)

41.8

31

436

0.04

n-dotriacontane*

42.3

32

450

NS

11,15- and 13,17-dimethylhentriacontane*

45.0

33

464

0.004

11,15- and 13,17-dimethylhentriacontane (?) *

45.7

33

464

NS

11-, 13-, 15- and 17-methyltritriacontane*

46.1

34

478

NS

Hexatriacontene isomer (?)

47.4

36

504

NS

Hexatriacontene

47.8

36

504

0.008

13,17- and 15,19-dimethyltritriacontane *

49.4

35

492

<0.001

13-,15- and 17-methylpentatriacontane *

49.9

36

506

<0.001

11,15- and 13,17-dimethylpentatriacontane *

52.8

37

520

0.002

n-octatriacontane

53.3

38

534

<0.001

n-tetracontane

56.7

40

562

0.03

  1. All identifications were high confidence (>90% similarity to library or standards mass spectra) except for those indicated with (?). Compounds that differed in ANOVA analysis across the five groups are highlighted in bold and patterns presented graphically in Figure 1. Compounds with *were also identified as present in Polistes metricus in [36].
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