Functional characterization of a sex pheromone receptor in the pest moth Spodoptera littoralis by heterologous expression in Drosophila

• Published in: The European journal of neuroscience Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 2588 - 2596
• Main Authors: Montagné, Nicolas, Chertemps, Thomas, Brigaud, Isabelle, François, Adrien, François, Marie-Christine, de Fouchier, Arthur, Lucas, Philippe, Larsson, Mattias C., Jacquin-Joly, Emmanuelle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2012; Wiley
• Subjects: Action Potentials; Agricultural sciences; Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Arthropod Antennae - metabolism; Arthropod Antennae - physiology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Biokemi och molekylärbiologi; Diptera; Drosophila; Drosophila - genetics; Drosophila - metabolism; Drosophila - physiology; electroantennography; Gene Expression; Insect Proteins - genetics; Insect Proteins - metabolism; Insect Proteins - physiology; insects; Life Sciences; Molecular Sequence Data; Noctuidae; odorant receptor; olfaction; Olfactory Receptor Neurons - physiology; pheromone; Receptors, Pheromone - genetics; Receptors, Pheromone - metabolism; Receptors, Pheromone - physiology; Sensilla - physiology; Sex Attractants - pharmacology; single sensillum recordings; Spodoptera; Spodoptera littoralis; Zoologi; Zoology; olfaction; electroantennography; pheromone; insects; odorant receptor; single sensillum recordings

Moth sex pheromone communication is recognised as a long‐standing model for insect olfaction studies, and a widespread knowledge has been accumulated on this subject thanks to numerous chemical, electrophysiological and behavioural studies. A key step has been the identification of candidate sex phe...