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Interspecific activity of the sex pheromone of the European shore crab ( Carcinus maenas ) Ralf Bublitz 1,3) , Bernard Sainte-Marie 2) , Chloe Newcomb-Hodgetts 1) , Nichola Fletcher 1) , Michelle Smith 1) & Jörg Hardege 1) ( 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Hull University, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; 2 Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 850 Route de la Mer, C.P. 1000-Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada G5H 3Z4) (Accepted: 18 April 2008) Summary The recent identification of uridine diphosphate (UDP) as the female sex-pheromone in the European shore crab Carcinus maenas demonstrated not only the link between moult and pheromone production, but also how it may have evolved from a ‘simple’ metabolic by- product. Consequently, it is expected to be present in other moulting crustaceans, thus raising issues involving species specificity of the female pheromone. Bioassays were conducted using synthetic pheromone (UDP, 10 − 3 –10 − 4 M) to examine if it induced sexual behaviour in other crustacean species that are neither closely related nor occur in the same ecosystem. The snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio , and the yellowline arrow crab, Stenorhynchus seticornis , both belonging to a different superfamily (Majoidea) and occurring in different
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Published: Jan 1, 2008
Keywords: HETEROSPECIFICITY; STENORHYNCHUS SETICORNIS; SEX PHEROMONE; CARCINUS MAENAS; CHIONOECETES OPILIO
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