A single sex pheromone receptor determines chemical response specificity of sexual behavior in the silkmoth Bombyx mori

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sakurai, Takeshi ^a   Mitsuno, Hidefumi ^a   Haupt, Stephan Shuichi ^a   Uchino, Keiro ^b   Yokohari, Fumio ^c   Nishioka, Takaaki ^d   Kobayashi, Isao ^b   Sezutsu, Hideki ^b   Tamura, Toshiki ^b   Kanzaki, Ryohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10,12 HEXADECADIENOL; 11 HEXADECENAL; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR1; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SILKWORM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; PLUTELLIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BOMBYX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959841374     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002115     Document Type: Article

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