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Chemical Signal Dissemination Through Infochemicals

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Every species has its own way of communication with diverse range of complexity that is relatively simplified in case of higher organisms while relatively complex in lower organisms like insects. Infochemical mediated chemical signal dissemination is very unanimous mode of communication in insects. Inability of lower organisms to emit acoustic signals enables them to adopt the infochemical mediated communication. Infochemicals comprise all forms of chemicals involved in communication process whether it is intraspecific or interspecific. Chemicals responsible for intraspecific communication are termed as pheromones while it is allelochemicals in case of interspecific communication. Infochemicals based communication has procured its efficiency in various environmental conditions such as rocks, aquatic, soil, and air, etc. Chemically these infochemicals represent diverse range of functional groups such as hydrocarbons, proteins, peptides, lactones, terpenes, amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, phenolics, etc. A number of signal emitters and receptors are present in insects regulated by a collection of genes for its better effectiveness. Chemical diversity and the gene regulated signal dissemination are the two factors responsible for specificity of the infochemical communication. These infochemicals regulate a range of social functions in insects such as mating, aggregation, trailing, alarming, protection from enemies, aphrodisiac, etc. Also, utilization of these infochemicals is an alternate way of providing the pathways for insect management by mating disruption, mass trap**, monitoring of pest infestation, mass annihilation, etc. Thereby, these infochemicals can be an important component of sustainable management of insect pests and also Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

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Kumar, R., Chandini, Kumar, R., Prakash, O., Kumar, R., Pant, A.K. (2021). Chemical Signal Dissemination Through Infochemicals. In: Nath, M., Bhatt, D., Bhargava, P., Choudhary, D.K. (eds) Microbial Metatranscriptomics Belowground. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9758-9_4

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