Chemical Communication in Crustaceans

Chemical Communication in Crustaceans
Thomas Breithaupt & Martin Thiel
1st edition
565 pages
ISBN-10: 038777100X
ISBN-13: 978-0387771007

The crustaceans are ecologically and economically important organisms. They constitute one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth, particularly within the aquatic realm. Crustaceans include some of the preferred scientific model organism, profitable aquaculture specimen, but also invasive nuisance species threatening native animal communities throughout the world. Chemoreception is the most important sensory modality of crustaceans, acquiring important information about their environment and picking up the chemical signals that mediate communication with conspecifics.
Significant advances have been made in our understanding of crustacean chemical communication during the past decade. This includes knowledge about the identity, production, transfer, reception and behavioral function of chemical signals in selected crustacean groups. While it is well known that chemical communication is an integral part of the behavioral ecology of most living organisms, the intricate ways in which organisms allocate chemicals in communication remains enigmatic. How does the environment influence the evolution of chemical communication? What are the environmental cues that induce production or release of chemicals? How do individuals economize production and utilization of chemicals? What is the importance of molecule specificity or mix of a molecule cocktail in chemical communication? What is the role of chemical cues in multimodal communication? How does the ontogenetic stage, the sex or the physiological status of an individual affect its reaction to chemical cues? Many of these questions still represent important challenges to biologists.



Table of Contents

- Pheromones and Behavior
- Crustaceans as Powerful Models in Aquatic Chemical Ecology
- Waterborne Chemical Communication: Stimulus Dispersal Dynamics and Orientation Strategies in Crustaceans
- Hydrodynamics of Sniffing by Crustaceans
- Chemosensory Sensilla in Crustaceans
- Neuronal Processing of Chemical Information in Crustaceans
- The Neural and Behavioral Basis of Chemical Communication in Terrestrial Crustaceans
- Chemical Communication Between Copepods: Finding the Mate in a Fluid Environment
- Chemical Communication in Peracarid Crustaceans
- Mantis Shrimp: Olfactory Apparatus and Chemosensory Behavior
- Chemical Communication in Lobsters
- Chemical Communication in Crayfish
- Chemical Communication in Decapod Shrimps: The Influence of Mating and Social Systems on the Relative Importance of Olfactory and Contact Pheromones
- Chemical Ecology and Social Behavior of Anomura
- Deception in Visual and Chemical Communication in Crustaceans
- Chemical Communication in a Multimodal Context
- Chemical Cues and Reducing the Risk of Predation
- Identification of Crustacean Sex Pheromones
- Approaches to a Molecular Identification of Sex Pheromones in Blue Crabs
- The Crustacean Endocrine System and Pleiotropic Chemical Messengers
- Toward a Characterization of the Chemical Cue to Barnacle Gregariousness
- Contact Chemoreception and Its Role in Zooplankton Mate Recognition
- A Review of Research in Fish Pheromones
- Chemical Communication and Aquaculture of Decapod Crustaceans: Needs, Problems, and Possible Solutions
- Effects of Pollutants on Olfactory Mediated Behaviors in Fish and Crustaceans
- Insect Pheromones: Useful Lessons for Crustacean Pheromone Programs?