ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2016
Cuticular Lipids as a Cross-Talk among Ants, Plants and Butterflies.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Integrated Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Mining of Candidate Genes for Weevil Resistance in Pea.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A La Carte Seed Harvesting:Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Variation in Ants' Chemical Recognition Signals across Vineyard Agroecosystems.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Influence of Host Plants and Tending Ants on the Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profile of a Generalist Myrmecophilous Caterpillar.Journal of chemical ecology · 2024Article
- Chemical Camouflage Induced by Diet in a Pest Treehopper on Host Plants.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The impact of the GLOSSY2 and GLOSSY2-LIKE BAHD-proteins in affecting the product profile of the maize fatty acid elongase.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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- The Geomagnetic Field (GMF) Is Necessary for Black Garden Ant (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Protective Benefits of Tending Ants to a Critically Endangered Butterfly.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2022Article
- The Inquiline AntBiology · 2021Article
- Advances in deciphering the genetic basis of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis and variation.Heredity · 2021Review
- The type of blood used to feed Aedes aegypti females affects their cuticular and internal free fatty acid (FFA) profiles.PloS one · 2021Article
- Update on Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis and Its Roles in Plant Disease Resistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
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- The Microbiome of the Maculinea-Myrmica Host-Parasite Interaction.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Host specificity pattern and chemical deception in a social parasite of ants.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Analysis of Cuticular Lipids of the Pharaoh Ant (International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Article
- Origanum vulgare terpenoids modulate Myrmica scabrinodis brain biogenic amines and ant behaviour.PloS one · 2018Article
- Genotyping and Bio-Sensing Chemosensory Proteins in Insects.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Lock-picks: fungal infection facilitates the intrusion of strangers into ant colonies.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Even though insects and plants are distantly related organisms, they developed an integument which is functionally and structurally similar. Besides functioning as a physical barrier to cope with abiotic and biotic stress, this interface, called cuticle, is also a source of chemical signaling. Crucial compounds with this respect are surface lipids and especially cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs). This review is focused on the role of CHCs in fostering multilevel relationships among ants, plants and Lepidoptera (primarily butterflies). Indeed, particular traits of ants as eusocial organisms allowed the evolution and the maintenance of a variety of associations with both plants and animals. Basic concepts of myrmecophilous interactions and chemical deception strategies together with chemical composition, biosynthetic pathways and functions of CHCs as molecular cues of multitrophic systems are provided. Finally, the need to adopt a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach in the survey of complex models is discussed.
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