Female Behaviour Drives Expression and Evolution of Gustatory Receptors in Butterflies

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Briscoe, Adriana D ^a   Macias Muñoz, Aide ^a   Kozak, Krzysztof M ^b   Walters, James R ^c   Yuan, Furong ^a   Jamie, Gabriel A ^b   Martin, Simon H ^b   Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K ^d   Ferguson, Laura C ^e   Mallet, James ^f,g   Jacquin Joly, Emmanuelle ^h   Jiggins, Chris D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BUTTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EGG LAYING; FEEDING; FEMALE; FEMALE BEHAVIOUR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HELICONIUS MELPOMENE; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSILLUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, INSECT; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880831421     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003620     Document Type: Article

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