ArticleNature communications2020
Early-exposure to new sex pheromone blends alters mate preference in female butterflies and in their offspring.
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- Butterfly brains change in morphology and in gene splicing patterns after brief pheromone exposure.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Mapping Gene Expression in Whole Larval Brains ofMethods and protocols · 2025Article
- Haemolymph transfusions transfer heritable learned novel odour preferences to naive larvae ofBiology letters · 2024Article
- Pupal and Adult Experience Affect Adult Response to Food Odour Components in the Flower-Visiting ButterflyInsects · 2024Article
- Inheritance of Acquired Traits in Insects and Other Animals and the Epigenetic Mechanisms That Break the Weismann Barrier.Journal of developmental biology · 2021Review
- Dissections of Larval, Pupal and Adult Butterfly Brains for Immunostaining and Molecular Analysis.Methods and protocols · 2021Article
- Divergence of chemosensing during the early stages of speciation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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Abstract
While the diversity of sex pheromone communication systems across insects is well documented, the mechanisms that lead to such diversity are not well understood. Sex pheromones constitute a species-specific system of sexual communication that reinforces interspecific reproductive isolation. When odor blends evolve, the efficacy of male-female communication becomes compromised, unless preference for novel blends also evolves. We explore odor learning as a possible mechanism leading to changes in sex pheromone preferences in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Our experiments reveal mating patterns suggesting that mating bias for new blends can develop following a short learning experience, and that this maternal experience impacts the mating outcome of offspring without further exposure. We propose that odor learning can be a key factor in the evolution of sex pheromone blend recognition and in chemosensory speciation.
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