Chemical Communication in Crustaceans

2011
ISBN: 978-1-4899-8149-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 565 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 873 g

The crustaceans are ecologically and economically important organisms. They constitute one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth, particularly within the aquatic realm. Crustaceans include some of the preferred scientific model organism, profitable aquaculture specimen, but also invasive nuisance species threatening native animal communities throughout the world. Chemoreception is the most important sensory modality of crustaceans, acquiring important information about their environment and picking up the chemical signals that mediate communication with conspecifics.

Significant advances have been made in our understanding of crustacean chemical communication during the past decade. This includes knowledge about the identity, production, transfer, reception and behavioral function of chemical signals in selected crustacean groups. While it is well known that chemical communication is an integral part of the behavioral ecology of most living organisms, the intricate ways in which organisms allocate chemicals in communication remains enigmatic. How does the environment influence the evolution of chemical communication? What are the environmental cues that induce production or release of chemicals? How do individuals economize production and utilization of chemicals? What is the importance of molecule specificity or mix of a molecule cocktail in chemical communication? What is the role of chemical cues in multimodal communication? How does the ontogenetic stage, the sex or the physiological status of an individual affect its reaction to chemical cues? Many of these questions still represent important challenges to biologists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thiel, Martin

Breithaupt, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbellose (Invertebrata) Krebstiere (Crustacea)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I. INTRODUCTORY SECTION
1. M. Thiel & T. Breithaupt: Chemical Communication in Crustaceans: research challenges for the 21st century 2. T. D. Wyatt: Pheromones and behavior

PART II. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS AND RECEPTION
3. M. E. Hay: Crustaceans as powerful models in aquatic chemical ecology
4. M. J. Weissburg: Waterborne chemical communication: stimulus dispersal dynamics and orientation strategies in crustaceans
5. M. A. R. Koehl: Hydrodynamics of sniffing by crustaceans
6. E. Hallberg & M. Skog: Chemosensory sensilla in crustaceans
7. M. Schmidt & D. Mellon: Neuronal processing of chemical information in crustaceans
8. B. S. Hansson, S. Harzsch, M. Knaden and M. Stensmyr: The neural and behavioral basis of chemical communication in terrestrial crustaceans

PART III. CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION AND BEHAVIOR
9. J. Yen & Lasley: Chemical communication between copepods: finding the mate in a fluid environment
10. M. Thiel: Chemical communication in peracarid crustaceans
11. K. Mead & R. Caldwell: Mantis Shrimps: olfactory apparatus and chemosensory behavior
12. J. Aggio & C. D. Derby: Chemical communication in lobsters
13. T. Breithaupt: Chemical communication in crayfish
14. R.T. Bauer: Chemical communication in decapod shrimps: the influence of mating and social systems on the relative importance of olfactory and contact pheromones
15. F. Gherardi & E. Tricarico: Chemical ecology and social behavior of Anomura
16. J. H. Christy & D. Rittschoff: Deception in visual and chemical communication in crustaceans
17. E. A. Hebets & A. Rundus: Chemical communication in a multimodal context
18. B. A. Hazlett: Chemical cues and reducing the risk of predation

PART IV. TOWARDS IDENTIFICATION OF CHEMICAL SIGNALS
19. J. Hardege & J. Terschak: Identification of crustacean sex pheromones
20. M. Kamio & C. D. Derby: Approaches to a molecular identification of sex pheromones in blue crabs
21. E. S. Chang: The crustacean endocrine system and pleiotropic chemical messengers
22. A.S. Clare: Towards a characterization of the chemical cue to barnacle gregariousness
23. T. Snell: Contact chemoreception and its role in zooplankton mate recognition
24. Y. W. Chung-Davidson, M. Huertas & W. Li: A review of research in fish pheromones

PART V. APPLIED ASPECTS:

25. A. Barki, C. Jones & I. Karplus.: Chemical communication and aquaculture of decapod crustaceans: needs, problems and possible solutions
26. K. H. Olsén: Effects of pollutants on olfactory mediated behaviors in fish and crustaceans
27. T. C. Baker: Insect pheromones: useful lessons for crustacean pheromone programs?