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How astigmatic mites control the emission of two or even three types of pheromones from the same gland

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Astigmatic mites are known to achieve intraspecific communication on alarm, sex, and aggregation by pheromonesreleased from one pair of opisthonotal glands. So far, species have been found to use a single active compound, or differentcompounds, to achieve two of the three communication functions.Each communication function emergesfrom the conditions the mites are facing, from functional characteristics such as dose-response relationships and active dose-range, and from the relative abundance of the active compounds in the gland. Here, findings on combinations of two communication functions from products of opisthonotal glands are summarized for species of Astigmata and new evidence is presented for a species, Rhizoglyphus setosus, that is capable of achieving all three communication functions – alarm, sex, and aggregation – from products of opisthonotal glands. The possible mechanisms that lead to multiple communication functions from products of one paired gland are discussed

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Kuwahara, Y. (2010). How astigmatic mites control the emission of two or even three types of pheromones from the same gland. In: Sabelis, M., Bruin, J. (eds) Trends in Acarology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9837-5_39

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