ArticleScience advances2019
Phenylacetonitrile in locusts facilitates an antipredator defense by acting as an olfactory aposematic signal and cyanide precursor.
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- Locusts employ neuronal sensory prioritization to reconcile two conflicting olfactory signals while aggregating.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Leafcutter Bee Megachile rotundata Reveals Its Ecological Adaptation and Pollination Biology.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Mandelonitrile produced by commensal bacteria protects the Colorado potato beetle against predation.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Dibutyl phthalate released by solitary female locusts mediates sexual communication at low density.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Synergistic olfactory processing for social plasticity in desert locusts.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Olfactory Mating Signals in the Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria.Journal of chemical ecology · 2024Article
- Gene redundancy and gene compensation of insulin-like peptides in the oocyte development of bean beetle.PloS one · 2024Article
- 4-Vinylanisole promotes conspecific interaction and acquisition of gregarious behavior in the migratory locust.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Spatially differential regulation of ATF2 phosphorylation contributes to warning coloration of gregarious locusts.Science advances · 2023Article
- PLIN2-induced ectopic lipid accumulation promotes muscle ageing in gregarious locusts.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Sexual repurposing of juvenile aposematism in locusts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Piwi/piRNAs control food intake by promoting neuropeptide F expression in locusts.EMBO reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Many aggregating animals use aposematic signals to advertise their toxicity to predators. However, the coordination between aposematic signals and toxins is poorly understood. Here, we reveal that phenylacetonitrile (PAN) acts as an olfactory aposematic signal and precursor of hypertoxic hydrogen cyanide (HCN) to protect gregarious locusts from predation. We found that PAN biosynthesis from phenylalanine is catalyzed by
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