Chemical and Visual Communication During Mate Searching in Rock Shrimp

Díaz, Eliecer; Thiel, Martín

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“…and Oratosquilla sp. (reviewed by Christy and Salmon, 1991)]; in shrimp [Alpheus heterochaelis (Hughes, 1996); Rhynchocinetes typus (Diaz and Thiel, 2004)]; and in crayfish [Austropotamobius pallipes (Acquistapace et al, 2002)]. …”

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The importance of color in mate choice of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

Baldwin

Johnsen

2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYVisual displays often play a large role in animal communication, particularly in sexual interactions. The blue crab Callinectes sapidus is both colorful and highly visually responsive, yet almost all studies of their courtship have focused on chemical cues. In the blue crabʼs underwater environment, however, visual cues may function more rapidly and over a longer distance than chemical cues. Given that blue crabs are aggressive and cannibalistic, visual cues may therefore allow blue crabs to quickly evaluate potential mates from safer distances. In the present study we show that courtship and mate choice behavior in C. sapidus can be stimulated by visual cues alone. Further, we show that males have a preference for females with red claw dactyls. In binary choice experiments, males displayed more often to photographs of females with red claws than to those with white claws or to those with black claws that were isoluminant to the red ones. This strongly suggests that male blue crabs made their choices based on the hue of the red claws, further suggesting that blue crabs are capable of color vision and use color in mate choice.

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The importance of color in mate choice of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

Baldwin

Johnsen

2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…Many crustaceans are known for their acute sensory abilities: chemical (e.g. Breithaupt and Eger, 2002;Díaz and Thiel, 2004), visual (e.g. Cronin et al, 2001;Van der Velden et al, 2008), tactile (e.g.…”

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Making sense of electrical sense in crayfish

Patullo

Macmillan

2010

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYThe five sensory modalities of humans are also found in a wide range of invertebrates. Other vertebrates have evolved additional special senses, such as the magnetic sense, which are also found in some invertebrates. However, there remain a few sensory abilities that curiously appear to be found in either vertebrates or invertebrates, but not both. For example, electrosensitivity -the ability to detect electric fields in water -which should benefit vertebrates and invertebrates alike, is apparently only used by vertebrates. However, recent reports suggest that some invertebrates could have an electric sense. Here we examine that possibility further and demonstrate a behavioural threshold to low-level electrical fields in two freshwater invertebrates. The responses are not low enough for them to detect the Earth's magnetic field as some other electroreceptive species can do, but sufficiently low for them to use in navigation or prey and predator detection. This finding challenges the current view of the sensory world of aquatic invertebrates and has implications for the evolution of this ability.

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“…Contact sex pheromone may be more important in other caridean shrimp. It has been suggested that only contact chemical cues exist for species recognition during reproduction in caridean shrimp, such as Palaemonetes pugio (Burkenroad 1947;Caskey & Bauer 2005), Palaemon paucidens (Kamiguchi 1972), Heptacarpus sitchensis (Bauer 1979), and Rhynchocinetes typus (Diaz & Thiel 2004).…”

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Reproductive isolation between two sympatric simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp,Lysmata wurdemanniandL. boggessi

Zhang

Lin

Hardege

et al. 2009

Marine Biology Research

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To investigate pre-and post-zygotic isolation between two sympatric and phylogenetically related species of Lysmata shrimp, two assays were conducted in the laboratory: (1) no specific mate choice where mating between the two species was 'forced'; (2) specific mate choice or preference where a female had a choice between conspecific and heterospecifc males. Behavioural studies reveal that female L. wurdemanni accepted only conspecific male shrimp, whereas L. boggessi females would mate with an interspecific male if there was no conspecific male present. When males of both species were present, L. boggessi females always mated with the conspecific male. Male L. boggessi in general did not respond to the sex pheromones secreted by female L. wurdemanni and did not display any pre-copulatory behaviour to newly moulted female L. wurdemanni. On the other hand, some male L. wurdemanni responded to female L. boggessi. Although mating was successful between male L. wurdemanni and female L. boggessi, the resulting embryos lived at most for 10 days and failed to hatch. The results indicate that the two species are both pre-zygotically and post-zygotically isolated. Behavioural observation suggests that chemical cues are most likely responsible for pre-zygotic isolation.

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Chemical and Visual Communication During Mate Searching in Rock Shrimp

Cited by 77 publications

References 47 publications

The importance of color in mate choice of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

The importance of color in mate choice of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus

Making sense of electrical sense in crayfish

Reproductive isolation between two sympatric simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp,Lysmata wurdemanniandL. boggessi

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