ArticleFrontiers in physiology2015
Unexpected plant odor responses in a moth pheromone system.
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- A plant volatile alters the perception of sex pheromone blend ratios in a moth.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
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- Decoding ants' olfactory system sheds light on the evolution of social communication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- A Background of a Volatile Plant Compound Alters Neural and Behavioral Responses to the Sex Pheromone Blend in a Moth.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Article
- Expansion of a bitter taste receptor family in a polyphagous insect herbivore.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Neuroethology of Olfactory-Guided Behavior and Its Potential Application in the Control of Harmful Insects.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Male moths rely on olfactory cues to find females for reproduction. Males also use volatile plant compounds (VPCs) to find food sources and might use host-plant odor cues to identify the habitat of calling females. Both the sex pheromone released by conspecific females and VPCs trigger well-described oriented flight behavior toward the odor source. Whereas detection and central processing of pheromones and VPCs have been thought for a long time to be highly separated from each other, recent studies have shown that interactions of both types of odors occur already early at the periphery of the olfactory pathway. Here we show that detection and early processing of VPCs and pheromone can overlap between the two sub-systems. Using complementary approaches, i.e., single-sensillum recording of olfactory receptor neurons, in vivo calcium imaging in the antennal lobe, intracellular recordings of neurons in the macroglomerular complex (MGC) and flight tracking in a wind tunnel, we show that some plant odorants alone, such as heptanal, activate the pheromone-specific pathway in male Agrotis ipsilon at peripheral and central levels. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a plant odorant with no chemical similarity to the molecular structure of the pheromone, acting as a partial agonist of a moth sex pheromone.
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