{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Harvey DJ"],"funding":["People's Trust for Endangered Species","British Ecological Society","Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council"],"pagination":["6037"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10933271"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The iconic European stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) is one of the largest terrestrial beetles in Europe. Due to decreasing population numbers, thought to be a consequence of habitat loss, this beetle has become a near-threatened species across much of Europe, and a reliable monitoring system is required to measure its future population trends. As part of a programme aimed at conserving UK populations, we have investigated the chemical ecology of the beetle, with a view to developing an efficient semiochemical-based monitoring system. Such a scheme will be beneficial not only in the UK but across the European range of the species, where the beetle is of conservation concern. Here, we report on a surprising discovery of a male-produced pheromone, which provokes initial sexual receptivity in females, and which has not been previously identified in the animal kingdom. Furthermore, we assign sex pheromone function to a previously described female-specific compound."],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pubmed_title":["Novel pheromone-mediated reproductive behaviour in the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus."],"pmcid":["PMC10933271"],"funding_grant_id":["BB/X010953/1","BBS/E/RH/230003A"],"pubmed_authors":["Woodcock CM","Caulfield JC","Pickett JA","Hooper A","Chapman JW","Finch P","Birkett MA","Gange AC","Harvey DJ","Vuts J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Novel pheromone-mediated reproductive behaviour in the stag beetle, Lucanus cervus.","description":"The iconic European stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) is one of the largest terrestrial beetles in Europe. Due to decreasing population numbers, thought to be a consequence of habitat loss, this beetle has become a near-threatened species across much of Europe, and a reliable monitoring system is required to measure its future population trends. As part of a programme aimed at conserving UK populations, we have investigated the chemical ecology of the beetle, with a view to developing an efficient semiochemical-based monitoring system. Such a scheme will be beneficial not only in the UK but across the European range of the species, where the beetle is of conservation concern. Here, we report on a surprising discovery of a male-produced pheromone, which provokes initial sexual receptivity in females, and which has not been previously identified in the animal kingdom. Furthermore, we assign sex pheromone function to a previously described female-specific compound.","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Mar","modification":"2026-06-26T03:25:09.76Z","creation":"2026-06-26T03:22:17.626Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10933271","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38472207"],"doi":["10.1038/s41598-024-55985-8"]}}