Nuptial Feeding Stimulants: A Male Courtship Pheromone of the German Cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)

Nojima, Satoshi; Nishida, Ritsuo; Kuwahara, Yasumasa; Sakuma, Masayuki

doi:10.1007/s001140050596

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“…Upon presentation of the glands, the female mounts the male and feeds on the secretion. This feeding places the female in the (Nojima et al, 1999a). These feeding stimulants also function as courtship pheromones in the context of German cockroach courtship behavior, because they serve to prolong the time females spend feeding on tergal gland secretion (i.e., time spent in the precopulatory position) (Nojima et al, 1999b).…”

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Effects of the juvenile hormone analog pyriproxyfen on German cockroach,Blattella germanica (L.), tergal gland development and production of tergal gland secretion proteins

Saltzmann

Neal

Scharf

et al. 2006

Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol.

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Male German cockroaches possess secretory glands that secrete fluid into a pair of transverse depressions on the seventh and eighth abdominal tergites. We investigated the effects of altered juvenoid titer during the first part of the last instar on tergal gland secretory tissue development and the production of tergal gland secretion proteins. Male fifth (last) instar nymphs (1-3 days post-emergent) were topically treated with the JH analog pyriproxyfen. Light and transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that treatment with pyriproxyfen produced a visible decrease in the amount of tergal gland tissue present, a deformation of the overall shape of the gland located on tergite seven, and a less orderly arrangement of the secretory cells in the tissue. The protein fraction of tergal gland secretion was examined in pyriproxyfen-treated and control insects 1, 5, and 15 days after the insects molted to the adult stage. Amounts of all tergal secretion proteins were reduced in treated insects.

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“…The glands produce a secretion containing volatile chemicals, oligosaccharides, phospholipids, and proteins (Brossut et al, 1975;Nojima et al, 1999a;Kugimiya et al, 2002). The seventh and eighth tergites are each sculpted to form two depressions connected by a central ridge (Sreng, 1979).…”

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Effects of the juvenile hormone analog pyriproxyfen on German cockroach,Blattella germanica (L.), tergal gland development and production of tergal gland secretion proteins

Saltzmann

Neal

Scharf

et al. 2006

Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol.

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“…This short range Bmutual exchange^or Bmutual appreciation^of volatile chemical messages between the male and the female, potentially mediated by the tergal gland and the supra-valvular gland respectively, recalls the female mounting and feeding behavior of type A behavior pattern (e.g. in B. germanica or R. maderae where tergal secretions are considered as a nuptial gift - Nojima et al 1999a;Nojima et al 1999b;Mondet et al 2008), or the male mounting of type B pattern (e.g. J. madecassa -Sreng 1993).…”

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Courtship and Mating Behavior of the Cockroach Oxyhaloa deusta [Thunberg, 1784] (Blaberidae, Oxyhaloinae): Attraction Bioassays and Morphology of the Pheromone Sources

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In this paper, we focus on the reproductive behavior of the cockroach Oxyhaloa deusta. Within the Oxyhaloinae subfamily, mating strategies and glandular areas involved in pheromone production have been studied for several genera belonging to the Nauphoetini and Gromphadorhini tribes. However, this is the first time that courtship and mating behavior have been explored within the genus Oxyhaloa, and in a more general way within the Oxyhaloini tribe. This work, comprising behavioral observations, olfactometric bio-assays and morphological data, highlights unusual behaviors and novelties in potential sex pheromone gland location, in both males (tergite 8) and females (supra-valvular area). Surprisingly, our results also indicate that mate finding is initiated by the female. This is quite remarkable inasmuch as the Oxyhaloinae subfamily is the only cockroach group in which males initiate mate finding by means of a sex pheromone, emitted during the calling posture by extending abdominal tergites. In the Oxyhaloinae subfamily, this occurrence of various reproductive behavioral patterns (including all the mating patterns known at present in Blattaria) in closely-related species is striking, and makes this group a suitable model for studying the changes in mating behavior correlated with the location of sexual glands.

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“…Surprisingly similar structures are found in males of some cockroach species (Brossut & Roth 1977). It has been pointed out that Blatella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blatellidae) emits pheromonal compounds made of olygosaccharids and phospholipids which play the role of sexual attractors during courtship (Nojima et al 1999, Kugimiya et al 2002. Considering the phylogenetic distance between these groups, it is impossible not to draw attention towards the enormous similarity of the associated structures in the sawfl ies and the ones described and illustrated for Blattaria by Brossut & Roth (1977).…”

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Life history of Aneugmenus merida Smith (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) in the Venezuelan Andes

Avila-Núñez¹,

Otero²,

Silmi³

et al. 2007

Neotrop. Entomol.

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História Natural de Aneugmenus merida Smith (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) nos Andes Venezuelanos RESUMO -Detalhes do ciclo de vida de Aneugmenus merida Smith criados em laboratório são relatados. As fêmeas produzem ovos partenogenéticos e não partenogenéticos. Após a eclosão, as lagartas dos machos de A. merida passam cinco ínstares, a pré-pupa, pupa e imago. O ciclo de vida dura cerca de 44 dias. As larvas alimentam-se de samambaia [Pteridium caudatum (L.) e Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf)] (Dennstaedtiaceae). Neste estudo também são relatadas observações sobre a morfologia do sinus sexualis, mediante imagens obtidas em microscópio eletrônico de varredura, e detalhes dos comportamentos exibidos durante a cópula. L.) and Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf)] (Dennstaedtiaceae). We also report on morphological observations of the sinus sexualis in males by scanning electron micrographs and give details on mating behavior. PALAVRAS-CHAVE

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Nuptial Feeding Stimulants: A Male Courtship Pheromone of the German Cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae)

Cited by 38 publications

References 14 publications

Effects of the juvenile hormone analog pyriproxyfen on German cockroach,Blattella germanica (L.), tergal gland development and production of tergal gland secretion proteins

Effects of the juvenile hormone analog pyriproxyfen on German cockroach,Blattella germanica (L.), tergal gland development and production of tergal gland secretion proteins

Courtship and Mating Behavior of the Cockroach Oxyhaloa deusta [Thunberg, 1784] (Blaberidae, Oxyhaloinae): Attraction Bioassays and Morphology of the Pheromone Sources

Life history of Aneugmenus merida Smith (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) in the Venezuelan Andes

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