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Cuticular hydrocarbons for identifying Sarcophagidae (Diptera) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The composition and quantity of insect cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) can be species-specific as well as sexually dimorphic within species. CHC analysis has been previously used for identification and ageing purposes for several insect orders including ...
Hannah E. Moore +4 more
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Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Orchid Bees Males: Interspecific and Chemotaxonomy Variation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent studies have investigated the composition of compounds that cover the cuticle in social insects, but few studies have focused on solitary bees.
Aline Borba Dos Santos +1 more
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Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbons Are Heritable and Associated With Variation in Colony Productivity [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 In social insects, cuticular hydrocarbons function in nest-mate recognition and also provide a waxy barrier against desiccation, but basic evolutionary features, including the heritability of hydrocarbon profiles and how they are shaped by natural ...
Timothy A Linksvayer +2 more
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Drosophila cuticular hydrocarbons revisited: mating status alters cuticular profiles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Most living organisms use pheromones for inter-individual communication. In Drosophila melanogaster flies, several pheromones perceived either by contact/at a short distance (cuticular hydrocarbons, CHs), or at a longer distance (cis-vaccenyl acetate ...
Claude Everaerts +3 more
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Cuticular hydrocarbons are associated with mating success and insecticide resistance in malaria vectors [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2021 In this study, Adams et al. investigate the effect of cuticular hydrocarbons on mating success in natural mosquito mating swarms. These hydrocarbons confer both higher mating success and increased resistance to pyrethroid, suggesting sexual selection for
Kelsey L. Adams +12 more
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A shift to shorter cuticular hydrocarbons accompanies sexual isolation among Drosophila americana group populations [PDF]
Evolution Letters, 2021 Because sensory signals often evolve rapidly, they could be instrumental in the emergence of reproductive isolation between species. However, pinpointing their specific contribution to isolating barriers, and the mechanisms underlying their divergence ...
Jeremy S. Davis +3 more
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Agriculture, 2022 Cuticular wax plays a critical role as a plant protectant against various environmental stresses. We predicted that the presence of the mutualistic fungal endophyte Epichloë gansuensis in Achnatherum inebrians would change both the composition of leaf ...
Zhenrui Zhao +6 more
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Cuticle hydrocarbons in saline aquatic beetles [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Hydrocarbons are the principal component of insect cuticle and play an important role in maintaining water balance. Cuticular impermeability could be an adaptative response to salinity and desiccation in aquatic insects; however, cuticular hydrocarbons ...
María Botella-Cruz +5 more
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Molecules, 2020 Phosphine resistance is a worldwide issue threatening the grain industry. The cuticles of insects are covered with a layer of lipids, which protect insect bodies from the harmful effects of pesticides.
Ihab Alnajim +5 more
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Ants use partner specific odors to learn to recognize a mutualistic partner. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Regulation via interspecific communication is an important for the maintenance of many mutualisms. However, mechanisms underlying the evolution of partner communication are poorly understood for many mutualisms. Here we show, in an ant-lycaenid butterfly
Masaru K Hojo +4 more
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