Fatty acids mediate aggressive behavior in the spider Tegenaria atrica |
| |
| Authors: | Grégory Pourié Fernando Ibarra Wittko Francke Marie Trabalon |
| |
| Institution: | 1. Laboratoire de Physiologie du Comportement, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Henri Poincaré, BP 239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
2. Institut für Organische Chemie, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
|
| |
| Abstract: | Summary. The aggressiveness of the house spider (Tegenaria atrica) has a chemical basis in terms of intra- and interspecific chemical communication. Vibrations are used for longer range detection of intruders on the web territory whereas cuticular lipids mediate shorter range agonistic behaviors. Two cuticular acids were shown to promote aggressive responses from adult spiders, whereas mixtures of cuticular alkanes acted as inhibition signals. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ |
|
