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10707312

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-4-11
pubmed:abstractText
We tested the attractiveness of individual scent compounds of bat-pollinated flowers to their pollinators, small flower-visiting bats of the genus Glossophaga (Phyllostomidae). Twenty compounds belonging to four different chemical substance classes were tested, both in the laboratory and in the field. In the laboratory, the bats (Glossophaga soricina) approached odour sources spontaneously and without preceding experience. Without ever receiving any reward they preferred the scent of a sulphur-containing compound, dimethyl disulphide, to several other odour components emitted by bat-pollinated flowers, and to scentless controls. In the field, at La Selva station in the tropical lowland rain forest of Costa Rica, G. commissarisi were attracted by two sulphur-containing compounds, dimethyl disulphide and 2,4-dithiapentane, to visit artificial flowers filled with sugar water. Thus, in nectarivorous bats the sense of smell obviously plays an important role in searching for and localising food sources, and even single components of the scent bouquets of bat-pollinated flowers are attractive. The preference for sulphur-containing odours seems to be innate.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0340-7594
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
186
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
143-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-6-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Sulphur-containing "perfumes" attract flower-visiting bats.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut für Zoologie II der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. helver@biologie.uni-erlangen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't