Settlement pheromone

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... 

Origin and Ecological Relevance of the Adult Settlement Pheromone (SIPC)... 

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... 

Clare AS, Freet RK, McClary M (1994) On the antennular secretion of the cyprid of Balanus amphitrite, and its role as a settlement pheromone. J Mar Biol Ass UK 74 243-250... 

Chemically mediated interactions have important direct and indirect effects on communities from both ecological and evolutionary standpoints.22 341 Chemical defense or communication cannot be properly understood unless it is viewed through the lenses of population, community, and ecosystem processes, and this requires consideration of both the biotic and abiotic components of the natural environment.342 For example, chemically mediated foraging is affected by water flow because it relies on water-soluble cues that are carried away from prey.343 345 Similar constraints likewise modify the effectiveness of other waterborne cues, such as alarm signals, sexual pheromones, and settlement cues, in both mobile and sessile organisms.244 345 350... 

Contact pheromones were shown to play a role in sex recognition in copepods (Snell, Chap. 23) and in shrimp (Bauer, Chap. 14) as well as in inducing settlement... 

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). 

Chemical communication is the commonest method of communication across the animal kingdom. Crustaceans provide some of the most interesting examples of this, from sex to settlement, but with few exceptions, we do not know the molecules that are being used. Crustaceans have the potential to be among the key model organisms for work on chemoreception in the future, in particular if their pheromones can be identified and synthesized. 

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... 

Burke, R.D. 1986. Pheromones and the gregarious settlement of marine invertebrate larvae. Bull. Mar. Sci. 39 323-331. 

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