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Insect Semiochemistry Lab
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A lab studying how insects use chemical substances to communicate and interact with their environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the chemical information insects exchange.
The Insect Semiochemistry Lab studies the semiochemicals that insects use.
Its research field is bioorganic chemistry, and its listed keywords are insects, plants, semiochemicals, pheromones, and kairomones.
Division of labor in social insects, semiochemicals of the Japanese honeybee, insect sex pheromones, and the relationship between plant scents and insects appear among its research topics and papers.
In the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences, the lab corresponds to the Insect Semiochemistry field of the Applied Life Chemistry Course.
Key terms
- Semiochemicals
- Chemical substances that living organisms release and receive in order to convey information. They include pheromones and kairomones.
- Pheromone
- A chemical substance released from the body to convey information to members of the same species. Sex pheromones are one example.
- Kairomone
- A chemical substance that serves as a cue not for the organism that releases it, but for a different species that receives it.
- Social insects
- Insects such as honeybees and ants that live in groups, divided into castes with a division of labor.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies semiochemicals involved with insects and plants in the field of bioorganic chemistry. Division of labor in social insects, sex pheromones, and plant scents and insect behavior are the subjects of its research topics and papers.
*Illustrative imageEvolution of Division of Labor in Social Insects
The lab investigates how altruistic castes divide labor in fortress-defending social insects, and the evolutionary mechanisms behind this. It also works on chemical signals and division of labor in social aphids.
*Illustrative imageChemical Signals in Honeybees and Ants
The lab lists semiochemicals of the Japanese honeybee as a research topic. For ants, there is a paper examining whether a substance specific to males of the Japanese carpenter ant may be involved in the nuptial flight.
*Illustrative imageInsect Sex Pheromones
The lab lists the sex pheromone system of the dark black chafer as a research topic. Its papers include studies of the response of sex pheromone receptors in the silkworm moth and of the relationship between diet and sex pheromone ratio in Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm).
*Illustrative imagePlant Scents and Insect Behavior
The lab lists kairomones of herbivorous insects as a research topic. Its papers include studies of the host-searching behavior of parasitoid wasps and of the attraction of male oriental fruit flies to aromatic components of fruit.
MembersFaculty
- LecturerShigeru Matsuyama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “European honey bee extracts nectar” John Severns (Severnjc) / Public domain (cropped)
- Evolution of Division of Labor in Social Insects: “H17termound Botswana” John Walker / Public domain (cropped)
- Chemical Signals in Honeybees and Ants: “Camponotus sideview 2” Richard Bartz, Munich Makro Freak / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- Insect Sex Pheromones: “Pheromone insect traps - Amol - Iran 08” Mehdi / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Plant Scents and Insect Behavior: “Drosophila melanogaster - side (aka)” André Karwath aka Aka / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
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