ArticleJournal of chemical ecology2017
Beyond Cuticular Hydrocarbons: Chemically Mediated Mate Recognition in the Subsocial Burying Beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides.
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- Cue Driven Mating Dynamics in Ladybird Beetle, Cheilomenes Sexmaculata (Fabricius).Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
- Divergence in cuticular wax profiles generates partial behavioural isolation between leaf beetle populations with different dispersal traits.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Chemosensory input from mouthparts in response to sexually dimorphic cuticular wax mediates male sexual discrimination in Galerucella grisescens (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Reproductives signature revealed by protein profiling and behavioral bioassays in termite.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Parent-offspring conflict and its outcome under uni-and biparental care.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Pheromones Regulating Reproduction in Subsocial Beetles: Insights with References to Eusocial Insects.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Review
- Divergent coevolutionary trajectories in parent-offspring interactions and discrimination against brood parasites revealed by interspecific cross-fostering.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Flexible females: nutritional state influences biparental cooperation in a burying beetle.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- The scent of offspring: chemical profiles of larvae change during development and affect parental behavior in a burying beetle.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Burying beetles have fascinated scientists for centuries due to their elaborate form of biparental care that includes the burial and defense of a vertebrate carcass, as well as the subsequent feeding of the larvae. However, besides extensive research on burying beetles, one fundamental question has yet to be answered: what cues do males use to discriminate between the sexes? Here, we show in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides that cuticular lipids trigger male mating behavior. Previous chemical analyses have revealed sex differences in cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) composition; however, in the current study, fractionated-guided bioassay showed that cuticular lipids, other than CHCs, elicit copulation. Chemical analyses of the behaviorally active fraction revealed 17 compounds, mainly aldehydes and fatty acid esters, with small quantitative but no qualitative differences between the sexes. Supplementation of males with hexadecanal, the compound contributing most to the statistical separation of the chemical profiles of males and females, did not trigger copulation attempts by males. Therefore, a possible explanation is that the whole profile of polar lipids mediates sex recognition in N. vespilloides.
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