ArticlePloS one2011
Odour maps in the brain of butterflies with divergent host-plant preferences.
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- The Salient Aroma Hypothesis: host plant specialization is linked with plant volatile availability in Lepidoptera.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Chromosome Level Assembly of the Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album).Genome biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Plant Approach-Avoidance Response in Locusts Driven by Plant Volatile Sensing at Different Ranges.Journal of chemical ecology · 2019Article
- Behavioral and Physiological Evidence for Palp Detection of the Male-Specific Attractant Cuelure in the Queensland Fruit Fly (Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Experience-dependent mushroom body plasticity in butterflies: consequences of search complexity and host range.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Specialist and generalist oviposition strategies in butterflies: maternal care or precocious young?Oecologia · 2016Article
- It's All in the Mix: Blend-Specific Behavioral Response to a Sexual Pheromone in a Butterfly.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Brain composition in Godyris zavaleta, a diurnal butterfly, Reflects an increased reliance on olfactory information.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2015Article
- The neural bases of host plant selection in a Neuroecology framework.Frontiers in physiology · 2015Review
- Perception of floral volatiles involved in host-plant finding behaviour: comparison of a bee specialist and generalist.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
Butterflies are believed to use mainly visual cues when searching for food and oviposition sites despite that their olfactory system is morphologically similar to their nocturnal relatives, the moths. The olfactory ability in butterflies has, however, not been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, we performed the first study of odour representation in the primary olfactory centre, the antennal lobes, of butterflies. Host plant range is highly variable within the butterfly family Nymphalidae, with extreme specialists and wide generalists found even among closely related species. Here we measured odour evoked Ca(2+) activity in the antennal lobes of two nymphalid species with diverging host plant preferences, the specialist Aglais urticae and the generalist Polygonia c-album. The butterflies responded with stimulus-specific combinations of activated glomeruli to single plant-related compounds and to extracts of host and non-host plants. In general, responses were similar between the species. However, the specialist A. urticae responded more specifically to its preferred host plant, stinging nettle, than P. c-album. In addition, we found a species-specific difference both in correlation between responses to two common green leaf volatiles and the sensitivity to these compounds. Our results indicate that these butterflies have the ability to detect and to discriminate between different plant-related odorants.
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