Pheromone barnacle settlement

Clare, A.S. and Matsumura, K., Nature and perception of barnacle settlement pheromones, Biofouling, 15, 57, 2000. 

Tegtmeyer, K. and Rittschof, D., Synthetic peptide analogs to barnacle settlement pheromone, Peptides, 9, 1403, 1989. 

Dreanno C, Kirby RR, Clare AS (2006) Locating the barnacle settlement pheromone spatial and ontogenetic expression of the settlement-inducing protein complex of Balanus amphitrite. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 273 2721-2728... 

Dreanno C, Kirby RR, Clare AS (2006b) Smelly feet are not always a bad thing the relationship between cyprid footprint protein and the barnacle settlement pheromone. Biol Lett 2 423 125... 

Many of the contributions in this book are concerned with pheromones, i.e., chemical stimuli that are employed by crustaceans to attract conspecifics. However, chemical communication also includes substances that are used to repel other organisms. These repellents could be especially useful in the aquaculture context, e.g., to repel parasites or fouling organisms. Many crustaceans are parasites of commercially important fish species (e.g., salmon) and both traps and repellents could be used in controlling infection levels (e.g., Mordue and Birkett 2009). Similarly, barnacles are abundant fouling organisms in suspended structures or seawater systems and developing techniques to suppress their recruitment is one of the main motivations behind the identification of settlement factors (Clare, Chap. 22). 

Clare AS, Yamazaki M (2000) Inactivity of glycyl-glycyl-arginine and two putative (QSAR) peptide analogues of barnacle waterborne settlement pheromone. J Mar Biol Ass UK 80 945-946... 

Endo N, Nogata Y, Yoshimura A, Matsumura K (2009) Purification and partial amino acid sequence analysis of the larval settlement-inducing pheromone from adult extracts of the barnacle, Balanus amphitrite <=Amphihalanus amphitrite). Biofouling 25 429-434... 

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