Circadian locomotor rhythm masked by the female reproduction cycle in cockroaches

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-73

  Tsai, Chi Wei ^a   Lee, How Jing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blattella bisignata; Blattella germanica; Masking effects; Mate finding strategy; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COCKROACH; CYCLICITY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LOCOMOTION; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

BLATTELLA BISIGNATA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; DICTYOPTERA;

EID: 0034021034     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3032.2000.00165.x     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Abed, D., Cheviet, P., Farine, J.P., Bonnard, O., Le Quere, J.L. & Brossut, R. (1993) Calling behaviour of female Periplaneta americana: behavioural analysis and identification of the pheromone source. Journal of Insect Physiology, 39, 709-720.
2. Aschoff, J. (1960) Exogenous and endogenous components in circadian rhythms. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 25, 11-28.
3. Aschoff, J. & von Goetz, C. (1988) Masking of circadian activity rhythms in male golden hamsters by the presence of females. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 22, 409-412.
4. Barson, G. & Renn, N. (1983) Hatching from oothecae of the German cockroach (Blattella germanica) under laboratory culture conditions and after premature removal. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 34, 179-185.
5. Cochran, D.G. (1979) A genetic determination of insemination frequency and sperm precedence in the German cockroach. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 26, 259-266.
6. Cochran, D.G. (1983) Food and water consumption during the reproductive cycle of female German cockroaches. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 34, 51-57.
7. Cornwell, P.B. (1968) The Cockroach, Vol. 1. A Laboratory Insect and an Industrial Pest. Hutchinson Press, London.
8. Daan, S. (1982) Circadian rhythms in animals and plants. Biological Timekeeping (ed. by J. Brady), pp. 11-32. Cambridge University Press, London.
9. Dreisig, H. & Nielsen, E.T. (1971) Circadian rhythm of locomotion and its temperature dependence in Blattella germanica. Journal of Experimental Biology, 54, 187-198.
10. Edmunds, L.N. Jr (1988) Cellular and Molecular Basis of Biological Clocks. Springer-Verlag, New York.
11. Enright, J.T. (1970) Ecological aspects of endogenous rhythmicity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1, 221-238.
12. Hales, R.A. & Breed, M.D. (1983) Female calling and reproductive behaviour in the brown banded cockroach. Supella longipalpa (F.) (Orthoptera: Blattellidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 76, 239-241.
13. Hamilton, R.L. & Schal, C. (1988) Effects of dietary protein levels on reproduction and food consumption in the German cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 81, 969-976.
14. Huang, T.C., Tu, J., Chow, T.J. & Chen, T.H. (1990) Induction of a circadian rhythm in Synechococcus RF-1 while the cells were in a 'suspended state'. Planta, 194, 436-438.
15. Ishii, S. & Kuwahara, Y. (1967) An aggregation pheromone of the German cockroach Blattella germanica L. (Orthoptera: Blattellidae). I. Site of the pheromone production. Applied Entomology and Zoology, 2, 203-217.
16. Ishii, S. & Kuwahara, Y. (1968) Aggregation of German cockroach (Blattella germanica) nymphs. Experientia, 24, 88-89.
17. Izutsu, M., Ueda, S. & Ishii, S. (1970) Aggregation effects on the growth of the German cockroach. Blattella germanica (L.) (Blattaria: Blattellidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 5, 159-171.
18. Lee, H.-J. & Wu, Y.-L. (1994) Mating effects on the feeding and locomotion of the German cockroach. Blattella germanica. Physiological Entomology, 19, 39-45.
19. Leppla, N.C., Koehler, P.G. & Agee, H.R. (1989) Circadian rhythms of the German cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae): locomotion in response to different photoperiods and wavelengths of light. Journal of Insect Physiology, 35, 63-66.
20. Lin, T.-M. & Lee, H.-J. (1996) The expression of locomotor circadian rhythm in female German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.). Chronobiology International, 13, 81-89.
21. Lin, T.-M. & Lee, H.-J. (1998) Parallel control mechanisms underlying locomotor activity and sexual receptivity of the female German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.). Journal of Insect Physiology, 44, 1039-1051.
22. Liang, D. & Schal, C. (1993a) Calling behaviour of the female German cockroach, Blattella germanica (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 6, 603-614.
23. Liang, D. & Schal, C. (1993b) Volatile sex pheromone in the female German cockroach. Experientia, 49, 324-328.
24. Loher, W. (1972) Circadian control of stridulation in the cricket, Teleogryllus commodus Walker. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 79, 173-190.
25. Loher, W. (1974) Circadian control of spermatophore formation in the cricket Teleogryllus commodus Walker. Journal of Insect Physiology, 20, 1155-1172.
26. Loher, W. (1979) The effect of male calling on female locomotor activity of Teleogryllus commodus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 5, 383-390.
27. Loher, W. (1989) Temporal organization of reproductive behaviour. Cricket Behavior and Neurobiology (ed. by F. Huber, T. E. Moore and W. Loher), pp. 83-113. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.
28. Mullins, D.E. & Cochran, D.G. (1987) Nutritional ecology of cockroaches. Nutritional Ecology of Insect, Mites, Spiders, and Related Invertebrates (ed. by F. Slansky Jr and J. G. Rodriguez), pp. 885-902. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
29. Page, T.L. (1989) Masking in invertebrates. Chronobiology International, 6, 3-11.
30. Pettit, L.C. (1940) The effect of isolation on growth in the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.) (Orthoptera Blattidae). Entomological News, 51, 293.
31. Rietveld, W.J., Minors, D.S. & Waterhouse, J.M. (1993) Circadian rhythms and masking: an overview. Chronobiology International, 10, 306-312.
32. Roth, L.M. (1985) A taxor omic revision of the genus Blattella Caudell (Dictyoptera, Blattaria: Blattellidae). Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement, 22, 1-221.
33. Roth, L.M. & Stay, B. (1962) Oöcyte development in Blattella germanica and Blattella vaga (Blattaria). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 55, 633-642.
34. Roth, L.M. & Willis, E.R. (1952) A study of cockroach behaviour. American Midland Naturalist, 47, 66-129.
35. Smith, A.F. & Schal, C. (1990) Corpus allatum control of sex pheromone production and release in the female brown-banded cockroach, Supella longipalpa (F.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Journal of Insect Physiology, 36, 251-257.
36. Smith, A.F. & Schal, C. (1991) Circadian calling behaviour of the adult female brown-banded cockroach. Supella longipalpa (F.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 4, 1-14.
37. Sokolove, P.G. & Bushell, W.N. (1978) The chi-square periodogram: its utility for analysis of circadian rhythms. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 72, 131-160.
38. Sommer, S.H. (1975) Experimental investigation of the circadian locomotor activity of Blattella germanica L. (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Biologisches Zentralblatt, 94, 455-467.
39. Tsai, C.W. (1997) Comparative Study of Locomotor Circadian Rhythm and Potential of Competition between Blattella bisignata (Brunner) and B. germanica (L.). Master Thesis, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
40. Tsai, C.-W. & Lee, H.-J. (1997) Volatile pheromone detection and calling behaviour exhibition: secondary mate-finding strategy of the German cockroach. Blattella germanica (L.). Zoological Studies, 36, 325-332.
41. Willis, E.R. (1970) Mating behaviour of three cockroaches (Latiblattella) from Honduras. Biotropica, 2, 120-128.
42. Willis, E.R., Riser, G.R. & Roth, L.M. (1958) Observations on reproduction and development in cockroaches. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 51, 53-69.
43. Wu, W.J. & Shiao, S.F. (1994) Notes on the rediscovery of Blattella bisignata (Brunner) in Taiwan and its morphological discrimination from B. germanica (L.) (Blattaria: Blattellidae). Chinese Journal of Entomology, 14, 539-542.