Chemical Communication in Crustaceans

Chemical Communication in Crustaceans Thomas Breithaupt l Martin Thiel Editors Chemical Communication in Crustaceans With drawings by Jorge Andrés Varela Ramos Editors Thomas Breithaupt Martin Thiel University of Hull Universidad Cato´lica del Norte Department of Biological Sciences Facultad Ciencas del Mar Hull, HU6 7RX Depto. de Biologıá Marina UK Larrondo 1281 [email protected] Coquimbo Chile [email protected] ISBN 978-0-387-77100-7 e-ISBN 978-0-387-77101-4 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-77101-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com) To our families and friends. Preface Animal communication has fascinated biologists for centuries. This fascination has sustained many a scientific career as will be evident from the personal accounts by the contributors to this book. Chemical signaling is the most widespread form of communication in crustaceans. During the past two decades, there have been significant advances in our understanding of crustacean chemical ecology. Gathering this information in an edited volume was the next logical step. This book covers a wide range of topics, including the identity, production, transmission, reception, and behavioral function of chemical signals in selected crustacean groups. The chapters are organized into five sections. The introductory section gives a brief overview of the main questions that are tackled in this volume and provides important definitions of signals, cues, and behavior. The next section on the transmission of chemical cues in the environment and on sensory biology is followed by a section on the behavioral contexts in which crustaceans use chemical communication, providing examples from the best studied taxa. Recent advances in the molecular identification of chemical signals are presented in the fourth section. The fifth and last section deals with the possible applications of pheromone research to aquaculture and pest management. One of our goals as editors was to encourage contributors to identify similarities and differences in chemical communication by crustaceans and by other taxa and thereby address questions of general interest. We therefore invited experts on communication in insects, spiders, and fishes to contribute to this book. They readily and, at first perhaps, innocently accepted our invitation, unaware that we would ask them to integrate knowledge of crustaceans into their chapters. Thus, their tasks went beyond a synthesis of their own work and expertise and we feel that they all have done a marvelous job. We learned a lot from them and we now share some of their fascination for their favorite organisms and the excitement that comes from studying them. Within the same spirit, we hope that this book will attract readers who are interested in learning about crustaceans, but who study other taxa in their quest to understand the evolution and function of chemical communication. There are several topics that we thought were ready for thorough review such as multimodal communication, deception, and pheromones in aquaculture and pest vii viii Preface management, but are still beyond the mainstream of crustacean research. Several of our colleagues had some experience in these areas, and they were thus “naturals” to be invited for these contributions. Though reluctant at first, they accepted the challenge and their enthusiasm grew as they wrote. In order to make this volume accessible to a broad audience that spans scientific and applied fields, we asked the authors to include a personal statement briefly describing why they entered their respective research fields. Such statements are not generally accepted in scientific writing. But we are most grateful that many of our authors adopted a more informal style and expressed their enthusiasm for their particular study species or research questions. We hope that our authors’ enthusiasm is sufficiently infectious and that the scientific questions they raise in their contributions will stimulate future research. If only a few young scholars are infected by this excitement for crustacean chemical communication, this book has achieved its goal. Hull, UK Thomas Breithaupt Coquimbo, Chile Martin Thiel Acknowledgments We thank our teachers, collaborators, and students who have helped shape our understanding of crustacean communication during the past two decades. The contributors to this book deserve most of our gratitude – all this would not have been possible without their expertise and efforts. A very special thanks goes to the more than 80 reviewers for their time and suggestions, which were very helpful to us and the authors – we could not have done without their critical and constructive input. Ivań A. Hinojosa provided expert help in the preparation of many of the figures in this book. Jorge A. Varela Ramos made many of the chemical interactions visible with his artistic drawings. TB would like to thank his wife Gabi and son Tobias for their endless patience during the many evenings and weekends when husband/daddy had to work on “the book” and was not available for family activities. MT thanks Taizhu for her continuous support and patience. His partici- pation in this project would not have been possible without the unconditional support from Universidad Cato´lica del Norte (UCN). Many of the chapters in this book were edited during a sabbatical stay at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland. MT wishes to thank A.H. Hines for supporting his stay at SERC. ix Contents Part I Introductory Section 1 Chemical Communication in Crustaceans: Research Challenges for the Twenty-First Century................................. 3 Martin Thiel and Thomas Breithaupt 2 Pheromones and Behavior ............................................... 23 Tristram D. Wyatt Part II General Overview of Signal Characteristics and Reception 3 Crustaceans as Powerful Models in Aquatic Chemical Ecology...... 41 Mark E. Hay 4 Waterborne Chemical Communication: Stimulus Dispersal Dynamics and Orientation Strategies in Crustaceans ................. 63 Marc J. Weissburg 5 Hydrodynamics of Sniffing by Crustaceans ............................ 85 Mimi A.R. Koehl 6 Chemosensory Sensilla in Crustaceans ................................ 103 Eric Hallberg and Malin Skog 7 Neuronal Processing of Chemical Information in Crustaceans...... 123 Manfred Schmidt and DeForest Mellon, Jr. xi xii Contents 8 The Neural and Behavioral Basis of Chemical Communication in Terrestrial Crustaceans........................... 149 Bill S. Hansson, Steffen Harzsch, Markus Knaden, and Marcus Stensmyr Part III Chemical Communication and Behavior 9 Chemical Communication Between Copepods: Finding the Mate in a Fluid Environment............................. 177 Jeannette Yen and Rachel Lasley 10 Chemical Communication in Peracarid Crustaceans................. 199 Martin Thiel 11 Mantis Shrimp: Olfactory Apparatus and Chemosensory Behavior............................................ 219 Kristina Mead and Roy Caldwell 12 Chemical Communication in Lobsters................................. 239 Juan Aggio and Charles D. Derby 13 Chemical Communication in Crayfish................................. 257 Thomas Breithaupt 14 Chemical Communication in Decapod Shrimps: The Influence of Mating and Social Systems on the Relative Importance of Olfactory and Contact Pheromones......... 277 Raymond T. Bauer 15 Chemical Ecology and Social Behavior of Anomura ................. 297 Francesca Gherardi and Elena Tricarico 16 Deception in Visual and Chemical Communication in Crustaceans ........................................................... 313 John H. Christy and Dan Rittschof 17 Chemical Communication in a Multimodal Context ................. 335 Eileen A. Hebets and Aaron Rundus 18 Chemical Cues and Reducing the Risk of Predation ................. 355 Brian A. Hazlett Contents xiii Part IV Towards Identification of Chemical Signals 19 Identification of Crustacean Sex Pheromones......................... 373 Joerg D. Hardege and John A. Terschak 20 Approaches to a Molecular Identification of Sex Pheromones in Blue Crabs.............................................. 393 Michiya Kamio and Charles D. Derby 21 The Crustacean Endocrine System and Pleiotropic Chemical Messengers.................................................... 413 Ernest S. Chang 22 Toward a Characterization of the Chemical Cue to Barnacle Gregariousness............................................. 431 Anthony S. Clare 23 Contact Chemoreception and Its Role in Zooplankton Mate Recognition ........................................................ 451 Terry Snell 24 A Review of Research in Fish Pheromones............................ 467 Yu-Wen Chung-Davidson, Mar Huertas,

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