Long-term stability of hornet cuticular hydrocarbons facilitates chemotaxonomy using museum specimens

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 732-737

  Martin, Stephen J ^a   Zhong, Weihao ^a   Drijfhout, Falko P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Lipids; Recognition; Vespa

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CUTICLE; HYDROCARBON; MUSEUM; WASP;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPA;

EID: 63849291158     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01158.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Akino T, Terayama M, Wakamura S, Yamaoka R. 2002. Intraspecific variation of cuticular hydrocarbon composition in Formica japonica Motschoulsky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoological Science 19 : 1155 1165.
2. Akino T, Yamamura K, Wakamura S, Yamaoka R. 2004. Direct behavioural evidence for hydrocarbons as nestmate recognition cues in Formica japonica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 39 : 381 387.
3. Avise JC. 2000. Phylogeography: the history and formation of species. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press.
4. Bartelt RJ, Armold MT, Schaner AM, Jackson LJ. 1986. Comparative analysis of cuticular hydrocarbons in the Drosophila virilis species group. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 83B : 731 742.
5. Bolton B. 1995. New general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press.
6. Bonavita-Cougourdan A, Bagneres A-G, Provost E, Dusticier G, Clement J-L. 1997. Plasticity of the cuticular hydrocarbon profile of the slave-making ant Polyergus rufescens depending on the social environment. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 116 : 287 302.
7. Chapman RF, Espelie KE, Sword GA. 1995. Use of cuticular lipids in grasshopper taxonomy - a study of variation in Schistocerca shoshone (Thomas). Biochemistry Systematics Ecology 23 : 383 398.
8. Clément J-L, Bagnères A-G, Uva P, Wilfert L, Quintana A, Reinhard J, Dronnet S. 2001. Biosystematics of Reticulitermes termites in Europe: morphological, chemical and molecular data. Insectes Sociaux 48 : 202 215.
9. Dallerac R, Labeur C, Jallon J-M, Knipple DC, Roelofs WL, Wicker-Thomas C. 2000. A delta 9 desaturase gene with a different substrate specificity is responsible for the cuticular diene hydrocarbon polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97 : 9449 9454.
10. Dapporto L. 2007. Cuticular lipid diversification in Lasiommata megera and Lasiommata paramegaera: the influence of species, sex, and population (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91 : 703 710.
11. Dapporto L, Palagi E, Turillazzi S. 2004. Cuticular hydrocarbons of Polistes dominulus as a biogeographic tool: a study of populations from the Tuscan Archipelago and surrounding areas. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30 : 2139 2151.
12. Edney EB. 1977. Water balance in land arthropods. New York, NY : Springer.
13. Everaerts Cl, Farine JP, Brossat R. 1997. Changes of species specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in the cockroachs Naaphoeta cinerea and Leucophaea maderae reared in heterospecific groups. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 85 : 145 150.
14. Ferveur J-F, Jallon J-M. 1996. Genetic control of male cuticular hydrocarbons in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetic Research 67 : 211 218.
15. Grunshawn JP, Guermouche H, Guermouche S, Jago ND, Jullien R, Knowles E, Perez F. 1990. Chemical taxonomic studies of cuticular hydrocarbons in locusts of the Schistocerca americana complex: chemical relationships between New World and Old World species. Journal of Chemical Ecology 16 : 2835 2858.
16. Gullan PJ, Cranston PS. 1994. The insects: an outline of entomology. London : Chapman and Hall.
17. Hay-Roe MM, Lamas G, Nation JL. 2007. Pre- and postzygotic isolation and Haldane rule effects in reciprocal crosses of Danaus erippus and Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danainae), supported by differentiation of cuticular hydrocarbons, establish their status as separate species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91 : 445 453.
18. Hefetz A. 1993. Hymentopteran exocrine secretions as a tool for chemosystematic analysis: possibilities and constraints. Biochemistry Systematics Ecology 21 : 163 169.
19. Howard RW, Blomquist GJ. 2005. Ecological, behavioural and biochemical aspects of insect hydrocarbons. Annual Review of Entomology 50 : 371 393.
20. Jallon JM, David JR. 1987. Variations in cuticular hydrocarbons among the 8 species of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Evolution 41 : 294 302.
21. Lockey KH. 1991. Insect hydrocarbon classes: implications for chemotaxonomy. Insect Biochemistry 21 : 91 97.
22. Lohman DJ, Liao Q, Pierce NE. 2006. Convergence of chemical mimicry in a guild of aphid predators. Ecological Entomology 31 : 41 51.
23. Martin SJ, Vitikainen E, Helanterä H, Drijfhout FP. 2008a. Chemical basis of nestmate recognition in the ant Formica exsecta. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 275 : 1271 1278.
24. Martin SJ, Helanterä H, Drijfhout FP. 2008b. Evolution of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon patterns in Formica ants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95 : 131 140.
25. Martin SJ, Takahashi J, Ono M, Drijfhout FP. 2008c. Is the social parasite Vespa dybowskii using chemical transparency to get her eggs accepted? Journal of Insect Physiology 54 : 700 707.
26. Martin SJ, Helanterä H, Drijfhout FP. 2008d. Colony-specific hydrocarbons identify nest-mates in two species of Formica ant. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34 : 1072 1080.
27. Ozaki M, Wada-Katsumata A, Fujikawa K, Iwasaki M, Yokohari F, Satoji Y, Nisimura T, Yamaoka R. 2005. Ant nest mate and non-nest mate discrimination by a chemosensory sensillium. Science 309 : 311 315.
28. Page M, Nelson LJ, Haverty MI, Blomquist GJ. 1990. Cuticular hydrocarbons of eight species of North American cone beetles, Conophthorus ponderosae. Journal of Chemical Ecology 16 : 1173 1198.
29. Schaefer JA. 2006. Towards maturation of the population concept. Oikos 112 : 236 240.
30. Symonds MRE, Elgar MA. 2004. The mode of pheromone evolution: evidence from bark beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 271 : 839 846.
31. Uva P, Clément J-L, Bagnères A-G. 2007. Colonial and geographic variations in agonistic behaviour, cuticular hydrocarbons and mtDNA of Italian populations of Reticulitermes lucifugus (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae). Insectes Sociaux 51 : 163 170.
32. Vogler AP, Monaghan MT. 2006. Recent advances in DNA taxonomy. Journal of Zoology Systematic and Evolutionary Research 45 : 1 10.
33. Wicker-Thomas C. 2007. Pheromonal communication involved in courtship behaviour in. Diptera. Journal of Insect Physiology 53 : 1089 1100.
34. Wigglesworth VB. 1965. The principles of insect physiology. London : Methusen.