Title:

Distinctive cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida)

Subtitle:

Annales Zoologici, vol. 58, no 2 ; Cuticular hydrocarbons in Oribatida

Creator:

Raspoting, Günther ; Krisper, Günther ; Fauler, Günther ; Leis, Hans-Jörg

Contributor:

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Natura optima dux Foundation

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2008

Description:

Bibliogr. p. 450-452 ; P. 445-452 : ill. ; 27 cm ; Taxa in Latin

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

Cerotegument ; Collohmannia ; Hermannia ; hydrocarbons ; lipid layer ; Oribatida ; Steganacarus ; Zetorchestes ; Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of representatives of different groups oforibatid mites (Mixonomata: Steganacarus carinatus, Collohmannia gigantea; Desmonomata: Hermannia gibba; Brachypylida: Zetorchestes falzonii) were investigated by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry. In general, cuticular extracts showed a series of straight chain alkanes being arranged in two (or three, respectively) distinctly different patterns: 1) a pattern with a gaussian quantitative distribution ofalkanes from C23 to C36 was noticed in extracts of C. gigantea and H. gibba, with C29 – C32being most abundant. 2) A pattern exhibiting a saw-tooth-like quantitative distribution ofalkanes – with only odd-numberd alkanes being abundant – appeared to be characteristicfor S. carinatus. 3) Extracts of Z. falzonii showed no hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons are considered to origin in a lipid layer which is covering the cuticle: this layer is regardedto represent the inner – and in some cases the only – layer of the oribatid cerotegument. The differences in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles among oribatid species may representa promising point of attachment for further chemosystematic studies.

Relation:

Annales Zoologici

Volume:

58

Issue:

2

Start page:

445

End page:

452

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

MiIZ PAN, call no. P.225, vol 58, no 2 ; MiIZ PAN, call no. P.4314, vol 58, no 2 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

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