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Induction of pairing in male scale worm Harmothoe imbricata (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) by chemical signals

Lookup NU author(s): Sylvie-Marylene Gaudron, Dr Gordon Watson, Emeritus Professor Matt Bentley

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Abstract

A behavioural assay based on a 'homosexual' response in males has revealed that female Harmothoe imbricata release a substance that induces pair formation. Extracts from unfertilized spawned oocytes (diameter approximately 120 μm), but not sub-mature oocytes (90 μm diameter) removed directly from the coelomic cavity, have significant pair formation-inducing activity in comparison to the control. Preliminary results indicate that the substance is stable under standard purification techniques and larger than 10 kDa, as well as being heat and trypsin insensitive.

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Author(s): Gaudron SM, Watson GJ, Bentley MG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Year: 2007

Volume: 87

Issue: 5

Pages: 1115-1116

Print publication date: 01/10/2007

ISSN (print): 0025-3154

ISSN (electronic): 1469-7769

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407055816

DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407055816

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