Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physiology -- 1 Introduction: history and overview of insect hydrocarbons -- References -- 2 Structure and analysis of insect hydrocarbons -- Types of hydrocarbons -- n-Alkanes -- Unsaturated hydrocarbons -- Methyl-branched alkanes -- Analytical techniques -- Characterization of hydrocarbons -- Mass spectral fragmentation patterns -- Positions of double bonds -- Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in hydrocarbon analysis -- Distribution of hydrocarbons on the cuticle -- Unanswered questions -- References -- 3 Biosynthesis of cuticular hydrocarbons -- Site of cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis -- Biosynthetic pathways for hydrocarbons -- Mechanism of hydrocarbon formation -- Chain length specificity -- Methyl-branched hydrocarbon biosynthesis -- Methyl-branched fatty acids -- Propionate metabolism in insects -- Ecdysteroid regulation of hydrocarbon production in the housefly -- Metabolism of cuticular hydrocarbons -- Developmental regulation of hydrocarbon synthesis and deposition -- References -- 4 Molecular biology and genetics of hydrocarbon production -- Fatty acid synthetase -- Desaturases -- Comparison of Musca and Drosophila desaturases -- Drosophila desaturases genetic studies -- Role of Desat1 -- Role of Desat2 -- Expression of desat1 and desat2 in the Tai strain -- Role of DesatF -- Elongases -- Elongases involved in male 7-T/7-P ratio -- Elongases involved in female long HC synthesis -- cis-vaccenyl acetate (cVA) biosynthesis -- Are other genes involved in the HC synthesis pathway? -- Final steps involved in HC formation -- Evolution of HC synthesis enzymes in Drosophila -- First desaturation -- Second desaturation -- Evolution of HC synthesis enzymes in insects -- References. , 5 Site of synthesis, mechanism of transport and selective deposition of hydrocarbons -- Site of synthesis -- Transport of hydrocarbons with lipophorin -- Social insects, hydrocarbon transport and deposition -- Role of endocrine and physiological factors in regulation of biosynthesis and transport in social insects -- Site of synthesis -- Role of various glands in hydrocarbon production and storage -- Role of the postpharyngeal gland in ants -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Cuticular lipids and water balance -- Is cuticular permeability important? Cuticular and respiratory water-loss -- Correlations between cuticular lipids and water-loss rates -- The phase transition model for cuticular permeability -- Experimental tests of the phase transition model -- Lipid composition and physical properties: size doesn't matter (much) -- Theoretical consideration of the transition phenomenon -- Are cuticular lipids the entire story? Melanization and water-loss -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7 Chemical taxonomy with hydrocarbons -- Chemotaxonomy and sex pheromones -- Pheromone polymorphism in the Sophophora subgroup (Table 7.1) -- D. melanogaster and d. simulans polymorphism -- D. santomea and d. yakuba polymorphism -- Pheromone polymorphism in d. elegans -- Pheromone polymorphism in the Drosophila subgroup (Table 1) -- D. mojavensis cluster -- D. paulistorum -- Pheromone polymorphism in the adiastola subgroup -- Chemotaxonomy and insects of economic importance -- Food processing and agronomy -- Orthoptera, Mantodea (Table 7.2) -- Homoptera (Table 7.2) -- Coleoptera (Table 7.3) -- Other taxa -- Urban pests -- Insects of medical importance -- Nematocera (Diptera) suborder -- Diptera - Brachycera Suborder (Table 7.5) -- Hemiptera -- Hymenoptera -- Non-insects -- Chemotaxonomy, biodiversity and bioindicators -- Lepidoptera -- Coleoptera -- Dictyoptera. , Social Hymenopterans -- Isoptera -- Chemotaxonomy, phylogeny and speciation -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Chemical synthesis of insect cuticular hydrocarbons -- Preamble: convenient methods of purification of synthesized cuticular hydrocarbons -- Methods of synthesizing various classes of cuticular hydrocarbons -- References -- 9 Oxygenated derivatives of hydrocarbons -- Occurrence and structural identification -- Secondary alcohols -- Secondary alcohol esters -- Diols -- Methyl-branched alcohols -- Ethers -- Epoxides -- Epoxy derivatives of mono-alkenes -- Epoxy derivatives of di-alkenes -- Epoxy derivatives of di-alkenes -- Ketones -- Ketones as glandular lipids -- Ketones as glandular lipids -- Methyl-branched ketones -- Keto-alcohols, keto-aldehydes and keto-wax esters -- Function of oxygenated hydrocarbons -- Protective water barrier -- Chemical communication -- Ketones and secondary alcohols -- Methyl-branched ketones (German cockroach pheromone) -- Epoxides -- Pheromone databases -- References -- Part II Chemical Communication -- 10 Perception and olfaction of cuticular compounds -- Tip-recording method for electrophysiological study of chemosensory sensilla -- Functional searching for the ant CHC sensillum by electrophysiological method -- Perireceptor events and role of lipophilic ligand-carrier proteins -- Ligand binding of lipophilic ligand carrier proteins -- Chemoreception of cuticular hydrocarbons and aggressive behavior expression -- References -- 11 Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons -- Evidence for hydrocarbons as nestmate recognition cues -- Social parasites -- Correlative evidence and removal-and-replacement experiments -- Direct evidence for cuticular hydrocarbons -- Models of decision rules in nestmate recognition -- The early models -- The acceptance threshold. , Plasticity of the acceptance threshold -- The referents and gestalt odor -- The neural mechanism and a new model -- Synthesis -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 12 Cuticular hydrocarbon cues in the formation and maintenance of insect social groups -- References -- 13 Hydrocarbon profiles indicate fertility and dominance status in ant, bee, and wasp colonies -- The importance of chemical communication in the regulation of reproduction in social insects -- Communication of reproductive status in social insects -- Hydrocarbon profiles and reproductive status -- Ants -- Species with workers having a limited reproductive potential -- Species with queens and workers having a strong reproductive potential -- Pure gamergate species -- Wasps -- Bees -- Hydrocarbon profiles and egg discrimination -- Ants -- Camponotus floridanus -- Dinoponera quadriceps -- Pachycondyla inversa -- Myrmecia gulosa and Aphaenogaster cockerelli -- Other ant species -- Wasps -- Polistes dominulus -- Bees: other potential egg-discrimination mechanisms -- Hydrocarbon profiles and social hierarchy -- Profile discrimination and worker reproduction -- Recognition of hydrocarbon profiles relating to fertility -- Effects on worker reproduction -- Patterns of profile variation -- Quantitative versus qualitative differences -- Ants -- Wasps -- Single versus multiple compounds and compound classes -- Cuticular profiles versus egg profiles -- Conclusions -- References -- 14 Chemical deception/mimicry using cuticular hydrocarbons -- Plant-insect interactions -- Non-social arthropod interactions -- Non-social arthropod-social insect interactions (Table 14.1) -- Honeybee parasites -- Termitophiles -- Myrmecophiles -- Intraspecific mimicry in insects -- Artificially mixed social insect colonies -- Interactions among social insects. , Interactions among social insects belonging to different orders -- Interactions among social insects belonging to different genera -- Interactions among social insects within the same genus -- Interaction among social insects within the same species -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 15 Behavioral and evolutionary roles of cuticular hydrocarbons in Diptera -- Courtship and mating -- Drosophilidae -- D. melanogaster and D. simulans - major CHC components -- D. melanogaster and D. simulans - minor CHC components -- Calliphoridae -- Ostridae -- Muscidae -- Glossinidae -- Evolutionary and neurobiological considerations -- Male courtship of other males and of immature flies -- Intra-individual CHC variability -- Cucilidae -- Calliphoridae -- Muscidae -- Drosophilidae -- Fitness effects -- Interspecific variation and evolutionary effects -- Future prospects -- References -- 16 Contact recognition pheromones in spiders and scorpions -- Contact recognition pheromones in spiders -- Identification of silk and cuticle lipids -- Contact recognition pheromones and sexual behavior in spiders -- Contact recognition pheromones and social behavior in spiders -- Contact recognition pheromones in scorpions -- Chemosensory experimentation and cuticular compounds of Smeringerus mesaensis -- Identification and assay of chemical recognition signals in Hadrurus arizonensis -- Conclusion on the role of the determined mixtures for the two scorpion species -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 17 Hydrocarbons as contact pheromones of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) -- Contact pheromones in the mating systems of longhorned beetles -- The use of bioassays to study contact chemoreception of cerambycids -- Sampling cuticular hydrocarbons -- Qualitative and quantitative differences in hydrocarbon profiles of the sexes. , Contact pheromones as single compounds or blends.

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Biodiversity and Chemical Mediation -- 1.1. Systematic and integrative taxonomy from chemical ecology -- 1.2. Scent communication between sexual partners -- 1.3. Scent communication between species -- 1.4. Chemical mimicry, to enhance reproduction -- 1.5. A dialog that sometimes evolves into an interaction network -- 1.6. Conclusions -- 1.7. Bibliography -- 2. Chemical Ecology: An Integrative and Experimental Science -- 2.1. Semiochemicals -- 2.2. Chemical ecology in multitrophic networks and co-evolution between species -- 2.3. Contribution of chemical ecology to the study of tropical plant diversification -- 2.4. When chemical ecology sheds light on the process of biological invasion - an example demonstrating integration between chemistry and ecology -- 2.5. Protection is in the air: how plants defend themselves against phytophagous insects through VOC emissions -- 2.6. Conclusions -- 2.7. Bibliography -- 3. Scents in the Social Life of Non-Human and Human Primates -- 3.1. Primate societies and their complex systems of communication -- 3.2. The role of odors in human communication -- 3.2.1. Human order convey a large panel of cues -- 3.2.2. Body orders reflect internal states -- 3.2.3. What are the functions of social smells in human daily life? -- 3.2.4. Human pheromones, fact or fiction? -- 3.3. The senses of smell and taste in the search for food and remedies -- 3.3.1. Interactions between senses and food in primates -- 3.3.2. Senses and self-medication in animals -- 3.3.3. Senses in human therapies -- 3.3.4. An evolutionary conception of the link between senses and health -- 3.4. Conclusions - the adaptive functions of the sense of smell in "microsmatic" species -- 3.5. Bibliography -- 4. Microbiota and Chemical Ecology. , 4.1. The protagonist microorganisms of chemical ecology -- 4.2. Strategies for the study of microbiota -- 4.2.1. How should the microbiota be characterized? -- 4.2.2. What tools are available to help understand the roles of the microbiota? -- 4.3. The molecular dialog of microorganisms -- 4.3.1. Language and social life of microorganisms -- 4.3.2. The AMPs, main actors in the equilibrium of bacterial communities -- 4.3.3. Fungi and bacteria communicate to better help each other -- 4.3.4. When helping each other degenerates into chemical warfare between bacteria and fungi -- 4.3.5. The Trichoderma fungi: heavy artillery against pathogenic fungi -- 4.4. Chemical communication between microorganisms and their hosts -- 4.4.1. Plant-bacteria relationships: essential interactions with different partners -- 4.4.2. Plants also establish intimate relations with fungi -- 4.4.3. Mutualist actinobacteria provide care to insects -- 4.4.4. Chemical communication between microorganisms and their host in the environment -- 4.5. Regulations and evolution of the interactions in changing ecosystems and environments -- 4.5.1. Contribution of chemical ecology to the understanding of biosynthesis mechanisms of chemical mediators -- 4.5.2. Metabolic networks: new tools for studying the evolution of host/microbiota interactions -- 4.6. Conclusions - from chemical ecology to future applications: impacts of the study of the microbiota -- 4.7. Bibliography -- 5. From Chemical Ecologyto Ecogeochemistry -- 5.1. Balance between primary and secondary metabolism -- 5.2. Role of secondary metabolites in biotic interactions and community structure -- 5.3. Secondary metabolites and ecosystem functioning: plant soil relation - brown food chain -- 5.4. Integration of biotic and abiotic dynamics: benthic marine microhabitats -- 5.5. Conclusions -- 5.6. Bibliography. , 6. Omics in Chemical Ecology -- 6.1. Introduction: the different "omic" technologies -- 6.2. From "omics" to signals: identifying new active molecules -- 6.3. From "omics" to the ecology of communities: identifying chemical interactions of organisms in their environment -- 6.4. From "omics" to molecular bases: revealing the genetic and molecular bases of chemical interactions -- 6.5. From "omics" to physiology: characterizing the modes of production and the modes of reception of active molecules -- 6.6. From "omics" to the role of environment: understanding the impact of biotic and abiotic factors on interactions -- 6.7. From "omics" to evolution: understanding and predicting the adaptive value of chemical interactions -- 6.8. Conclusions and perspectives -- 6.9. Bibliography -- 7. Metabolomic Contributions to Chemical Ecology -- 7.1. Definition of metabolomics -- 7.2. Different strategies of the metabolomic approaches -- 7.3. The different steps for conducting a metabolomic study -- 7.3.1. Experimental design and sampling -- 7.3.2. Analytical approaches -- 7.3.3. Data processing -- 7.4. Applications of metabolomics -- 7.4.1. Chemical biodiversity and chemotaxonomy -- 7.4.2. Study of the regulation and evolution of metabolic/ biosynthesis pathways -- 7.4.3. Contributions to functional ecology -- 7.4.4. Application of metabolomics to the study of environmental disturbances -- 7.5. Conclusions -- 7.6. Bibliography -- 8. Chemical, Biological and Computational Tools in Chemical Ecology -- 8.1. Chemical tools -- 8.1.1. Analytical tools of chromatography -- 8.1.2. Analytical approach by nuclear magnetic resonance -- 8.1.3. Secondary metabolite imagery techniques -- 8.2. Sequencing tools -- 8.2.1. Principles, strengths and limitations of NGS -- 8.2.2. Major domains of NGS applications -- 8.3. Databases: biodiversity in silico. , 8.3.1. Databases of chemical compounds and general ecology -- 8.3.2. Databases for the omics that can be used in chemical ecology -- 8.4. Conclusions -- 8.5. Bibliography -- 9. Academic and Economic Values of Understanding Chemical Communication -- 9.1. Nature as a model -- 9.2. Nature as a model for development of new molecules of interest -- 9.2.1. From chemical mediators to new bioactive structural archetypes -- 9.2.2. From chemical mediators to new bioactive structural archetypes -- 9.2.3. Chemical mediators and ligand/receptor interactions: to the discovery of new cellular receptors and biochemical tools -- 9.3. Chemical ecology and sustainable development -- 9.3.1. Bio-control -- 9.3.2. Bio-inspired chemistry and remedial phytotechnologies -- 9.4. Conclusions -- 9.5. Bibliography -- Conclusion: Looking Forward: the Chemical Ecology of Tomorrow -- Glossary -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.

Note: Literaturangaben , Foreword / Stéphanie Thiébault and Françoise Gaill -- Introduction / Anne-Geneviève Bagnères and Martine Hossaert-McKey -- Biodiversity and chemical mediation / Bertrand Schatz, Doyle McKey and Thierry Pérez -- Chemical ecology : an integrative and experimental science / Anne-Marie Cortesero, Magali Proffit, Christophe Duplais and Frédérique Viard -- Scents in the social life of non-human and human primates / Marie Charpentier, Guillaume Odonne and Benoist Schaal -- Microbiota and chemical ecology / Soizic Prado, Catherine Leblanc and Sylvie Rebuffat -- From chemical ecology to ecogeochemistry / Catherine Fernandez, Virginie Baldy and Nadine Le Bris -- Omics in chemical ecology / Sylvie Baudino, Christophe Lucas and Carole Smadja -- Metabolomic contributions to chemical ecology / Philippe Potin, Florence Nicolè and Olivier P. Thomas -- Chemical, biological and computational tools in chemical ecology / Nicolas Barthès, Jean-Claude Caissard, Jérémy Just and Xavier Fernandez -- Academic and economic values of understanding chemical communication / Bernard Banaigs, Ali Al Mourabit, Guillaume Clave and Claude Grison -- Conclusion / Martine Hossaert-McKey and Anne-Geneviève Bagnères