caa a22 4500 467889600 CHVBK 20180406152745.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00049-005-0325-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00049-005-0325-5 Shunning the night to elude the hunter: diurnal fireflies and the "femmes fatales” [Elektronische Daten] [Matthew Gronquist, Frank Schroeder, Helen Ghiradella, David Hill, Erin McCoy, Jerrold Meinwald, Thomas Eisner] Summary.: Lucidota atra, a diurnal firefly, shares possession of defensive steroids (lucibufagins or LBGs) with nocturnal fireflies of the genus Photinus. Photinus are protected against predators by their LBGs, but not against fireflies of the genus Photuris, the so-called firefly femmes fatales, which prey upon Photinus, thereby acquiring LBGs for their own defense. We propose that L. atra may have been prompted evolutionarily to become diurnal by the opportunity to avoid, thereby, being hunted by Photuris. Indeed, L. atra, if offered to Photuris, were eagerly devoured by the latter, which sequestered their LBG's. In feeding on L. atra, Photuris may be driven by a gustatory affinity for LBGs. Persistent nocturnality might therefore have put L. atra at risk vis à vis Photuris. Diurnality freed the firefly from that risk, without compromising its defended status with respect to other predators. Possession of LBGs may in fact account for L. atra's unacceptability to birds and spiders. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2006 Co-evolution nationallicence bioluminescence nationallicence lucibufagins nationallicence chemical defense nationallicence aggressive mimicry nationallicence Gronquist Matthew Department of Chemistry, SUNY, 13045, Cortland, NY, USA aut Schroeder Frank Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut Ghiradella Helen Department of Biology, SUNY, 12222, Albany, NY, USA aut Hill David 213 Wild Horse Creek Drive, 29680, Simpsonville, SC, USA aut McCoy Erin Department of Chemistry, SUNY, 13045, Cortland, NY, USA aut Meinwald Jerrold Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut Eisner Thomas Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut CHEMOECOLOGY Birkhäuser-Verlag; www.birkhauser.ch 16/1(2006-03-01), 39-43 0937-7409 16:1<39 2006 16 49 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-005-0325-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-005-0325-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gronquist Matthew Department of Chemistry, SUNY, 13045, Cortland, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schroeder Frank Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ghiradella Helen Department of Biology, SUNY, 12222, Albany, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hill David 213 Wild Horse Creek Drive, 29680, Simpsonville, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCoy Erin Department of Chemistry, SUNY, 13045, Cortland, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Meinwald Jerrold Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eisner Thomas Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- CHEMOECOLOGY Birkhäuser-Verlag; www.birkhauser.ch 16/1(2006-03-01), 39-43 0937-7409 16:1<39 2006 16 49 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer