Toward Identifying Sex Pheromonesin Blue Crabs Using Biomarker Targeting within the Contextof Evolutionary Chemical Ecology

摘要

Experimental approaches to identify sex pheromones of blue crabs are outlined. I de-scribe how consideration of the ecological context of mating behavior can lead to thedevelopment of more reliable bioassays. I also describe chemical analyses that demon-strate differences in the chemical composition of urines from animals of different sexand maturity, which indicates the promise of using biomarker targeting in identifyingsex pheromones.