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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Changes of species specific cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in the cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea and Leucophaea maderae reared in heterospecific groups

Claude EveraertsRémy BrossutJean-pierre Farine

subject

Chemical signatureCockroachbiologyEcologyCuticlecuticular hydrocarbonsZoologyDictyopterachemical signatureDictyopterabiology.organism_classificationChemical communicationBlaberidaeMixed speciesOxyhaloinaeartificial heterospecific coloniesInsect Sciencebiology.animalinterspecific recognitionEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsLeucophaea maderae

description

0013-8703 (Print) 1570-7458 (Online); The cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of the cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea and Leucophaea maderae are species-specific when maintained in homospecific rearings. When individuals were reared in mixed species colonies, they initially remained in homospecific groups under different shelters. However, after 14 days they formed one heterospecific group with cuticular profiles showing characteristics of both species. When individuals were returned in monospecific rearings, their cuticular hydrocarbon profiles returned to species-specific ones within 3 weeks.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00457816