Description

• Title:
  Distinctive cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida)
• Creator:
  Raspoting, Günther;
  Krisper, Günther;
  Fauler, Günther;
  Leis, Hans-Jörg
• Contributor:
  Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Description:
  Bibliogr. p. 450-452;
  Taxa in Latin;
  Journal/Article
• Object availability:
  restricted access
• Rights:
  Rights Reserved - Restricted Access;
  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.;
  Closed
• Date:
  2008.12.31;
  2008
• Type:
  Text;
  Article : original article
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  MiIZ PAN, call no. P.225, vol 58, no 2;
  MiIZ PAN, call no. P.4314, vol 58, no 2;
  http://katalog.pan.pl/webpac-bin/228bmiizEN/wgbroker.exe?new+-access+top+search+open+NR+xx002977299
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Natura optima dux Foundation
• Relation:
  Annales Zoologici
• Subject:
  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.
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Cyfrowe Instytutów Naukowych
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• Type:
  text