Chemical Communication in Crustaceans

by Breithaupt, Thomas; Thiel, Martin; Ramos, Jorge Andres Varela

• ISBN13: 9780387771007
• ISBN10: 038777100X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-25
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Thomas Breithaupt is a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Hull (UK) where he studies the mechanisms and evolution of chemical communication and orientation in crustaceans and fish. Martin Thiel is professor of Marine Biology at Universidad Catlica del Norte in Coquimbo (Chile) where together with his students he uses crustaceans as model organisms to study the evolution of social behavior in the sea.

Table of Contents

Introductory Section
Chemical Communication in Crustaceans: Research Challenges for the Twenty-First Century	p. 3
Pheromones and Behavior	p. 23
General Overview of Signal Characteristics and Reception
Crustaceans as Powerful Models in Aquatic Chemical Ecology	p. 41
Waterborne Chemical Communication: Stimulus Dispersal Dynamics and Orientation Strategies in Crustaceans	p. 63
Hydrodynamics of Sniffing by Crustaceans	p. 85
Chemosensory Sensilla in Crustaceans	p. 103
Neuronal Processing of Chemical Information in Crustaceans	p. 123
The Neural and Behavioral Basis of Chemical Communication in Terrestrial Crustaceans	p. 149
Chemical Communication and Behavior
Chemical Communication Between Copepods: Finding the Mate in a Fluid Environment	p. 177
Chemical Communication in Peracarid Crustaceans	p. 199
Mantis Shrimp: Olfactory Apparatus and Chemosensory Behavior	p. 219
Chemical Communication in Lobsters	p. 239
Chemical Communication in Crayfish	p. 257
Chemical Communication in Decapod Shrimps: The Influence of Mating and Social Systems on the Relative Importance of Olfactory and Contact Pheromones	p. 277
Chemical Ecology and Social Behavior of Anomura	p. 297
Deception in Visual and Chemical Communication in Crustaceans	p. 313
Chemical Communication in a Multimodal Context	p. 335
Chemical Cuses and Reducing the Risk of Predation	p. 355
Towards Identification of Chemical Signals
Identification of Crustacean Sex Pheromones	p. 373
Approaches to a Molecular Identification of Sex Pheromones in Blue Crabs	p. 393
The Crustacean Endocrine System and Pleiotropic Chemical Messengers	p. 413
Toward a Characterization of the Chemical Cue to Barnacle Gregariousness	p. 431
Contact Chemoreception and Its Role in Zooplankton Mate Recognition	p. 451
A Review of Research in Fish Pheromones	p. 467
Applied Aspects
Chemical Communication and Aquaculture of Decapod Crustaceans: Needs, Problems, and Possible Solutions	p. 485
Effects of Pollutants on Olfactory Mediated Behaviors in Fish and Crustaceans	p. 507
Insect Pheromones: Useful Lessons for Crustacean Pheromone Programs?	p. 531
Index	p. 551
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