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A cuticular glycoprotein known as the settlement-inducing protein complex (SIPC) induces gregarious settlement in the barnacle, Balanus amphitrite. Here the ability of B. amphitrite cyprids to discriminate among the SIPCs of three related Balanidae, B. improvisus, Megabalantis rosa and Elminitis modestus is examined. Using a laboratory settlement assay, the effective surface-adsorbed concentration of B. amphitrite SIPC that achieved 50% settlement of B. ainphitrite cypris larvae (EC50) was similar to 100 ng 0.8 cm(-2). When the B. antphitrite cyprids were exposed to conspecific and allospecific SIPC extracts at their EC50, they settled preferentially (P<0.05) on the conspecific extracts (24.3 +/- 1.8%) rather than on the SIPCs of B. improvisus (9.2 +/- 1.6%), M. rosa (9.7 +/- 2.9%) and E. modestus (3.1 +/- 2.1%). Moreover, the cyprids did not discriminate significantly (P>0.05) between the SIPCs of B. improvisus and M rosa. These results are consistent with the phylogenetic relationships of the species and suggest that variation in the SIPCs may play an important role in species recognition and barnacle evolution. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Dreanno C, Kirby RR, Clare AS
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Year: 2007
Volume: 351
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 276-282
ISSN (print): 0022-0981
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2007.07.003
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.07.003
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