Surface glycoproteins are not the contact pheromones in the Lysmata shrimp |
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Authors: | Dong Zhang Jing Zhu Junda Lin Jörg D Hardege |
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Institution: | (1) School of Environment and Public Health, Wenzhou Medical College, University Town, 325035 Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China;(2) Vero Beach Marine Laboratory, Florida Institute of Technology, 805 E. 46th Place, Vero Beach, FL 32963, USA;(3) Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901, USA;(4) Department of Biological Sciences, Hull University, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK |
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Abstract: | Behavioral evidence suggests that some male caridean shrimp, such as those of Lysmata species, identify conspecific females via contact pheromones that coat the cuticle surface of the females. In this study,
we attempted to determine whether the contact pheromones in three Lysmata species, Lysmata ankeri, Lysmata boggessi, and Lysmata wurdemanni, are glycoproteins as hypothesized previously in a diverse group of aquatic invertebrates. Twenty lectins were screened and
lectin-binding experiments indicated that lectin treatment did not affect mate recognition in the shrimps. The behavior of
the male-phase (MP) shrimp in the three treatments (non-lectin-treated MP and lectin-treated euhermaphrodite-phase (EP) shrimp,
lectin-treated MP and lectin-treated EP shrimp, and lectin-treated MP and non-lectin-treated EP shrimp) and in the control
was not different in responding to lectin-treated and control EP shrimp. All the MP shrimp copulated with lectin-treated and
control EP shrimp successfully. All the MP shrimp copulated with ethylenediamine tetraacetate-treated EP shrimp (with glycoproteins
removed from their cuticle surface) immediately after they detected the EP shrimp. The results suggest that glycoproteins
are not likely to be the contact sex pheromones in the three Lysmata shrimp species. |
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