Sexual isolation of male moths explained by a single pheromone response QTL containing four receptor genes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 8660-8665

  Gould, Fred ^a   Estock, Marie ^a,c   Hillier, N Kirk ^b,d   Powell, Bekah ^a   Groot, Astrid T ^a,e   Ward, Catherine M ^a,f   Emerson, Jennifer L ^a   Schal, Coby ^a   Vickers, Neil J ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Envirologix Inc   (United States)

^d ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AFLP; Heliothis; Mating; Odorant receptor; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; Z11-16 ALD; Z11-16 OAC; Z11-16 OH; Z9-14 ALD; Z9-16 ALD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; BEHAVIOR; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 27; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HELIOTHIS SUBFLEXA; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; INTROGRESSION; MALE; MALE ANIMAL; MOTH; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODORANT RECEPTOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RECEPTOR GENE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSES, GENETIC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; INBREEDING; KETONES; MALE; MOTHS; NEURONS; PHEROMONES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HELIOTHIS; HELIOTHIS SUBFLEXA; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 77952724998     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910945107     Document Type: Article

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