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Interspecific activity of the sex pheromone of the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas)

Interspecific activity of the sex pheromone of the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas) 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Behaviour Brill

Interspecific activity of the sex pheromone of the European shore crab (Carcinus maenas)

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0005-7959
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1568-539X
DOI
10.1163/156853908785765872
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Abstract

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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