ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013
Gustatory sensing mechanism coding for multiple oviposition stimulants in the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus.
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- Alternative Splicing in TRPA1 Drives Sensory Adaptation to Electrophiles in Drosophilids.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Gustation in insects: taste qualities and types of evidence used to show taste function of specific body parts.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2023Article
- Electrophysiological and Morphological Characterization of Contact Chemosensilla in Adults and Larvae of the Butterfly,Insects · 2022Article
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- Oviposition stimulants underlying different preferences between host races in the leaf-mining moth Acrocercops transecta (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Coexpression of Three Odorant-Binding Protein Genes in the Foreleg Gustatory Sensilla of Swallowtail Butterfly Visualized by Multicolor FISH Analysis.Frontiers in insect science · 2021Article
- Diet choice: The two-factor host acceptance system of silkworm larvae.PLoS biology · 2020Article
- Sensing the Plant Surface Prior to Feeding and Oviposition: Differences in External Ultrastructure and Function Among Tarsi of Heliconius erato.Neotropical entomology · 2018Article
- The Odorant Binding Protein 6 Expressed in Sensilla Chaetica Displays Preferential Binding Affinity to Host Plants Volatiles inFrontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Phytophagous insect oviposition shifts in response to probability of flower abortion owing to the presence of basal fruits.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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- The molecular and cellular basis of taste coding in the legs of Drosophila.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014Article
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Abstract
The swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus, selectively uses a limited number of plants in the Rutaceae family. The butterfly detects oviposition stimulants in leaves through foreleg chemosensilla and requires a specific combination of multiple oviposition stimulants to lay eggs on the leaf of its host plants. In this study, we sought to elucidate the mechanism underlying the regulation of oviposition behavior by multiple oviposition stimulants. We classified chemosensilla on the tarsomere of the foreleg into three types (L1, L2, and S) according to their size and response to oviposition stimulants and general tastants. The L1 was more abundant in females than in males and responded preferentially to oviposition stimulants. Both L2 and S were common to both sexes and responded to general tastants. We found that five oviposition stimulants (synephrine, stachydrine, 5-hydroxy-Nω-methyltryptamine, narirutin, and chiro-inositol) elicited spikes from three specific gustatory receptor neurons (GRNs) within L1 sensilla. These three GRNs responded to a mixture of the five stimulants at concentrations equivalent to those found in the whole-leaf extract of citrus, and the mixture induced oviposition at levels comparable to whole-leaf extract. We propose that oviposition is triggered by the firing of three specific GRNs in L1 sensilla that encode the chemical signatures of multiple oviposition stimulants.
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