cuticular hydrocarbons
Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Buffalo Fly, Haematobia exigua, and Chemotaxonomic Differentiation from Horn Fly, H.irritans
... that cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of buffalo and horn flies are almost identical in newly emerged flies, but can readily be distinguished in flies older than 2 ...the cuticular hydrocarbons ...
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Aging modulates cuticular hydrocarbons and sexual attractiveness in Drosophila melanogaster
... Attractiveness is a major component of sexual selection that is dependent on sexual characteristics, such as pheromone production, which often reflect an individualʼs fitness and reproductive potential. Aging is a ...
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Cuticular hydrocarbons as maternal provisions in embryos and nymphs of the cockroach Blattella germanica
... Cuticular hydrocarbons of arthropods serve multiple functions, including as barriers to water loss and as pheromones and pheromone ...long-chain hydrocarbons are produced by oenocytes within the ...
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Desiccation tolerance in Anopheles coluzzii: the effects of spiracle size and cuticular hydrocarbons
... The African malaria mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii range over forests and arid areas, where they withstand dry spells and months-long dry seasons, suggesting variation in their desiccation tolerance. ...
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Quantitative Trait Loci for Cuticular Hydrocarbons Associated With Sexual Isolation Between Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia
... behaviors. Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHs) of species of the Drosophila melanogaster group play a large role in sexual isolation by functioning as contact pheromones influencing mate ...
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Cuticular hydrocarbons as queen adoption cues in the invasive Argentine ant
... In social insects, individuals typically recognize and behave aggressively towards alien conspecifics, thereby maintaining colony integrity. This is presumably achieved via a nestmate recognition system in which ...
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Evolution of cuticular hydrocarbons in the hymenoptera : a meta analysis
... the cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) that are embedded in the cutic- ular lipid layer of all insects and have been extensively researched over the past 30 ...
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Differences in the reliance on cuticular hydrocarbons as sexual signaling and species discrimination cues in parasitoid wasps
... Background: Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) have been documented to play crucial roles as species- and sex- specific cues in the chemical communication systems of a wide variety of ...
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Sources of variation in cuticular hydrocarbons in the ant formica exsecta
... that cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) production in insects is under genetic control (Wicker- Thomas and Chertemps 2010) and that these chemicals are involved in ...
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Effectiveness of isopropyl myristate/cyclomethicone D5 solution of removing cuticular hydrocarbons from human head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis)
... In this study gas chromatography was used to compare the hydrocarbon extraction efficiency of isopropyl myris- tate/cyclomethicone D5 with that of iso-octane as a con- trol reference. Hydrocarbons specific to the ...
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Comparison of Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Three Populations of the Carpenter Bee “Ceratina calcarata” to help Understand their Role in Social Evolution, Sean Lombard
... Finally, the behavioral patterns of bees collected from Georgia and Missouri are likely to be different from New Hampshire, and could also explain some of the observed CHC variation, [r] ...
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Genetics of a Difference in Male Cuticular Hydrocarbons Between Two Sibling Species, Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia
... Our hypothesis was that if sexual isolation was affected by the male’s pheromonal profile, then (1) males containing tricosene ratios abnormal for their species would ma[r] ...
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Evolution of water conservation mechanisms in Drosophila
... Flies of the genus Drosophila inhabit a wide range of habitats, from the tropics to deserts to boreal forests. The primary physiological mechanism allowing Drosophila and other insects to survive in arid habitats is a ...
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A cuckoo in wolves' clothing? Chemical mimicry in a specialized cuckoo wasp of the European beewolf (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae and Crabronidae)
... orchids). Hydrocarbons are considered to repre- sent the principal cues for nestmate recognition in social bees and wasps [41] and are most probably also involved in nest identification and species recognition in ...
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Water loss in tree weta (Hemideina): adaptation to the montane environment and a test of the melanisation–desiccation resistance hypothesis
... 2002), cuticular water loss accounts for the majority of total water loss and is thus is the most significant route for preventing water loss in insects at rest (Chown and Nicolson, ...reduced cuticular ...
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Species specific cuticular hydrocarbon stability within European Myrmica Ants
... Abstract Recognition is a fundamental process on which all subsequent behaviors are based at every organizational level, from the gene up to the super-organism. At the whole organ- ism level, visual recognition is the ...
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Temperature affects the ontogeny of sexually dimorphic cuticular hydrocarbons in Drosophila melanogaster
... Fig. 1. Production of predominant cuticular hydrocarbons in 4 -day-old males as a function of the temporal induction of heat shock. Values are means of absolute amounts (ng) ± S . E . M . A single 1 h ...
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Evolution of Reproductive Dominance in Animal Societies – Lessons From a Social Wasp
... 705 Sledge M F, Boscaro F and Turillazzi S 2001 Cuticular hydrocarbons and reproductive status in the social wasp Polistes dominulus Behav Ecol Sociobiol 49 401-409 Stacey P B and Koenig[r] ...
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A behavioural and genomic approach to studying the evolution of reproductive isolation : a contact zone between closely related field crickets in the genus Teleogryllus
... What processes contribute to the evolution of reproductive isolation and the coexistence of interfertile species in the same habitat? This thesis investigates the relative roles of species interactions and intraspecific ...
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Low levels of nestmate discrimination despite high genetic differentiation in the invasive pharaoh ant
... rearing, suggesting that nestmate discrimination is a direct function of chemical distance. Likewise, Liang and Silverman [16] and Liang et al., [49] found strong correla- tional evidence for the importance of ...
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