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Cysteine-glutathione disulfide, the sperm-release pheromone of the marine polychaete Nereis succinea (Annelida: Polychaeta)

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In the marine polychaete Nereis succinea (Frey & Leuckart 1847) a sex pheromone was isolated from the coelomic fluid of sexually mature females and identified by NMR studies and independent synthesis. This pheromone is released by the females during reproduction together with eggs and coelomic fluid into the free water column and induces sperm release of surrounding males. Its structure was ascertained as L-cysteine-glutathione disulfide. It exhibited a response threshold of 0.6 · 10−7 M.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, PO Box 2503, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany, , , , , , DE

    Erich Zeeck

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Oldenburg, Germany, present address: University of Wales, Cardiff, PO Box 915, Cardiff CF1 3TL, Wales, UK, , , , , , GB

    Carsten T. Müller & Manfred Beckmann

  3. Department of Biology, University of Oldenburg, Germany, present address: University of Wales, Cardiff, PO Box 915, Cardiff CF1 3TL, Wales, UK, , , , , , GB

    Jörg D. Hardege

  4. Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany, Fax: +49-40-41233834, , , , , , DE

    Ulrich Papke, Volker Sinnwell, Frank C. Schroeder & Wittko Francke

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Received 15 July 1997; accepted 25 November 1997.

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Zeeck, E., Müller, C., Beckmann, M. et al. Cysteine-glutathione disulfide, the sperm-release pheromone of the marine polychaete Nereis succinea (Annelida: Polychaeta). Chemoecology 8, 33–38 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001801

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