On the role of olfaction in sexual and interspecies recognition in crickets (Acheta and Gryllus)

Otte, Daniel; Cade, William H.

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(76)80091-7

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“…In crickets, odors may serve as attractants and repellents (Otte & Cade 1976). The results suggest that E. corumbatai used repellent odors during aggressive behavior, when the male extruded a structure present between the final tergites, and this resulted in agonistic communication, probably mediated through odor emition.…”

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Reproductive behavior of Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae)

Prado¹

2006

Neotrop. Entomol.

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Comportamento Reprodutivo de Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae) RESUMO -Em Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia, os machos adultos apresentam tegminas reduzidas e sem aparelho estridulatório e, portanto, tiveram que desenvolver outros modos de comunicação intraespecifica. Durante a corte, os machos usam uma combinação de batimentos com as pernas dianteiras e ondulações das antenas, além da sinalização química através de feromônios, uma vez que as fêmeas se tornam receptivas à cópula quando os machos expõem a glândula metanotal. Essa glândula, localizada no metanoto do macho, é também uma fonte de substâncias das quais a fêmea se alimenta antes de receber o espermatóforo. Durante a cópula, a fêmea destrói o ápice da glândula metanotal para ter acesso à secreção liberada por essa estrutura. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Glândula metanotal, presente nupcial, griloABSTRACT -Adult males of Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia have reduced tegmina without stridulatory apparatus. For this reason, they developed other means of intra-specific communication. During courtship, the males use a combination of foreleg drumming and waving of the antennae, in addition to chemical signaling through pheromones. The females become receptive to copulation when the males expose their metanotal gland. This gland, located on the male metanotum, is also a source of substances on which females feed before receiving the spermatophore. During copulation, the female destroys the apex of the metanotal gland to gain access to the secretion released by this structure.

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confidence: 88%

Reproductive behavior of Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae)

Prado¹

2006

Neotrop. Entomol.

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“…The most probable chemosensory cues in this regard are cuticular hydrocarbons, especially given their role in species and sex recognition in crickets (Otte & Cade 1976;Simmons 1990;Tregenza & Wedell 1997).…”

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Females use self-referent cues to avoid mating with previous mates

2005

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Females of many species mate repeatedly throughout their lives, often with many different males (polyandry). Females can secure genetic benefits by maximizing their diversity of mating partners, and might be expected, therefore, to forego matings with previous partners in favour of novel males. Indeed, a female preference for novel mating partners has been shown in several taxa, but the mechanism by which females distinguish between novel males and previous mates remains unknown. We show that female crickets (Gryllodes sigillatus) mark males with their own unique chemical signatures during mating, enabling females to recognize prior mates in subsequent encounters and to avoid remating with them. Because self-referent chemosensory cues provide females with a simple, but reliable mechanism of identifying individuals with whom they have mated without requiring any special cognitive ability, they may be a widespread means by which females across a broad range of animal mating systems maximize the genetic benefits of polyandry.

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“…Gryllus bimaculatus and T. oceanicus both use CHCs to determine the genetic relatedness of potential mates (Simmons, 1989(Simmons, , 1990Thomas and Simmons, 2011). G. bimaculatus, Acheta domesticus, G. integer, T. oceanicus, and T. commodus respond to sex differences in chemosensory cues (von Hörmann-Heck, 1957;Otte and Cade, 1976;Rence and Loher, 1977;Hardy and Shaw, 1983;Tregenza and Wedell, 1997;Nagamoto et al, 2005;Leonard and Hedrick, 2009), and in some cases CHC profiles have been shown to differ between the sexes (Warthen and Uebel, 1980;Tregenza and Wedell, 1997;Thomas and Simmons, 2008). Given their general importance in mate choice in crickets, we might also expect CHCs to play an important role in species recognition.…”

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“…Given their general importance in mate choice in crickets, we might also expect CHCs to play an important role in species recognition. There are a few studies implying that this may be the case in G. integer, G. lineaticeps, and Allonemobius species (Otte and Cade, 1976;Paul, 1976;Leonard and Hedrick, 2009), and differences in CHC profiles have been found among species of rapidly diverging Laupala (Mullen et al, 2007(Mullen et al, , 2008, however, other than Maroja et al (2014), no studies have explicitly tested this prediction. Here, we investigate the role of chemical cues in species recognition between a pair of European field crickets.…”

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Chemical cues mediate species recognition in field crickets

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Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are important in mate choice in many insects, and may be used for species recognition if CHC profiles differ between potentially hybridizing species. In the sibling field cricket species Gryllus campestris and G. bimaculatus, females of G. bimaculatus are tolerant toward G. campestris males and can mate with them. However, G. campestris females are highly aggressive toward heterospecific G. bimaculatus males, and matings between them never happen. We examined whether cricket females might use CHCs to determine the species identity of their potential mates. We firstly analyzed the cuticular chemical profile by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to assess the potential of CHCs to be used for species recognition in these crickets. We then manipulated females' ability to detect chemical cues by carrying out chemical ablation of the antennae, and measured changes in aggressive responses to heterospecific males. We show that there are significant interspecies differences in CHC expression for both sexes, and that females with chemically ablated antennae reduce aggressive behavior toward heterospecific males. Our findings support the prediction that cuticular semiochemicals can play a key role in reproductive isolation between closely related insect species.

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On the role of olfaction in sexual and interspecies recognition in crickets (Acheta and Gryllus)

Cited by 71 publications

References 7 publications

Reproductive behavior of Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae)

Reproductive behavior of Eidmanacris corumbatai Garcia (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae)

Females use self-referent cues to avoid mating with previous mates

Chemical cues mediate species recognition in field crickets

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