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Males and females of the social wasp Ropalidia marginata do not differ in their cuticular hydrocarbon profiles and do not seem to use any long-distance volatile mate attraction cues

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dc.contributor.author Mitra, A. en_US
dc.contributor.author NETTIMI, R. PALAVALLI en_US
dc.contributor.author Ramachandran, A. en_US
dc.contributor.author Saha, P. en_US
dc.contributor.author Gadagkar, R. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-26T06:38:02Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-26T06:38:02Z
dc.date.issued 2015-08 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Insectes Sociaux, 62(3), 281-289. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0020-1812 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1420-9098 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5273
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-015-0408-4 en_US
dc.description.abstract Sex pheromones are vital in communication between individuals belonging to opposite sexes and form an integral part of the reproductive biology of various species. Among insects, sexual dimorphism in CHCs has been reported from diverse taxa spanning seven different orders, and thereby CHCs have been implicated as sex pheromones. Because males and females of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata touch each other with their antennae during mating, before engaging in sperm transfer, a sex pheromone that is perceived via contact chemosensation through the antennae can possibly exist in this species. Since CHCs have been implied as sex pheromones in various insects (including hymenopterans), and since sexual dimorphism of CHCs should be an obligatory prerequisite for them to act as sex pheromones, we investigated whether males and females of R. marginata differ in their CHC profiles. We found only nonvolatile CHCs, and our results show absence of sexual dimorphism in CHCs, suggesting that CHCs do not function as sex pheromone in this species. A behavioral assay failed to show presence of mate attraction at a distance, thereby showing the absence of volatile long-distance mate attraction cues (that may originate from sources other than and in addition to CHCs). en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.subject Cuticular hydrocarbons en_US
dc.subject Sexual dimorphism en_US
dc.subject Sex pheromone en_US
dc.subject Mate attraction en_US
dc.subject Ropalidia marginata en_US
dc.subject 2015 en_US
dc.title Males and females of the social wasp Ropalidia marginata do not differ in their cuticular hydrocarbon profiles and do not seem to use any long-distance volatile mate attraction cues en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.contributor.department Dept. of Biology en_US
dc.identifier.sourcetitle Insectes Sociaux en_US
dc.publication.originofpublisher Foreign en_US


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