Two odorant-binding proteins mediate the behavioural response of aphids to the alarm pheromone (e)-ß-farnesene and structural analogues

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Yu Feng ^a,b   de Biasio, Filomena ^c   Qiao, Hui Li ^a   Iovinella, Immacolata ^a   Yang, Shao Xiang ^b   Ling, Yun ^b   Riviello, Lea ^c   Battaglia, Donatella ^c   Falabella, Patrizia ^c   Yang, Xin Ling ^b   Pelosi, Paolo ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Biologia delle Piante Agrarie   (Italy)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA FARNESENE; BINDING PROTEIN; INSECT REPELLENT; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN 2; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN 4; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN 5; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA-FARNESENE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN; ODORANT-BINDING PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SESQUITERPENE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APHID; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SMELLING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCENCE; GENETICS; INSECT CONTROL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; HEXAPODA; MYZUS PERSICAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCAPE REACTION; FLUORESCENCE; INSECT CONTROL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SESQUITERPENES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863297389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032759     Document Type: Article

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