Highly Selective Tuning of a Silkworm Olfactory Receptor to a Key Mulberry Leaf Volatile
Abstract
Summary. Background. The olfactory system plays an important role in the recognition of leaf volatiles during the search of folivore insects for a suitable plant host. For example, volatiles emitted by mulberry leaves trigger chemotaxis behavior in the silkworms Bombyx mori, and as a consequence, they preferentially reside on and consume mulberry leaves. Here, we aimed to identify natural chemoattractants and their corresponding olfactory receptors (Ors) involved in silkworm behavior to mulberry leaves.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.035
- Bibcode:
- 2009CBio...19..881T