Shifts in sensory neuron identity parallel differences in pheromone preference in the European corn borer

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Koutroumpa, Fotini A ^a,b   Kárpáti, Zsolt ^a,e   Monsempes, Christelle ^b   Hill, Sharon R ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^c   Jacquin Joly, Emmanuelle ^b   Krieger, Jürgen ^d   Dekker, Teun ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

In situ hybridization; Olfactory evolution; Ostrinia nubilalis; Pheromone receptors; QPCR; Single sensillum recordings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946075228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00065     Document Type: Article

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