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Inhalt
- Background
- Methods
- Animals used in this study
- Sample preparation
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Synchrotron X-ray microtomography and radiography (SRμCT)
- Visualization of SRμCT data
- Videography
- Functional analyses
- Preparation of oil gland secretion extracts
- Gas chromatography – Mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
- Liquid chromatography – High-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS)
- Preparative capillary gas chromatography (pcGC)
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)
- Predation experiments
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Additional files
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Funding
- Availability of data and materials
- Authors’ contributions
- Ethics approval
- Consent for publication
- Competing interests
- Publisher’s Note
- Author details
- References