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An inhibitory sex pheromone tastes bitter for Drosophila males.
| العنوان: | An inhibitory sex pheromone tastes bitter for Drosophila males. |
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| المؤلفون: | Fabien Lacaille, Makoto Hiroi, Robert Twele, Tsuyoshi Inoshita, Daisuke Umemoto, Gérard Manière, Frédéric Marion-Poll, Mamiko Ozaki, Wittko Francke, Matthew Cobb, Claude Everaerts, Teiichi Tanimura, Jean-François Ferveur |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 2, Iss 7, p e661 (2007) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2007. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | Sexual behavior requires animals to distinguish between the sexes and to respond appropriately to each of them. In Drosophila melanogaster, as in many insects, cuticular hydrocarbons are thought to be involved in sex recognition and in mating behavior, but there is no direct neuronal evidence of their pheromonal effect. Using behavioral and electrophysiological measures of responses to natural and synthetic compounds, we show that Z-7-tricosene, a Drosophila male cuticular hydrocarbon, acts as a sex pheromone and inhibits male-male courtship. These data provide the first direct demonstration that an insect cuticular hydrocarbon is detected as a sex pheromone. Intriguingly, we show that a particular type of gustatory neurons of the labial palps respond both to Z-7-tricosene and to bitter stimuli. Cross-adaptation between Z-7-tricosene and bitter stimuli further indicates that these two very different substances are processed by the same neural pathways. Furthermore, the two substances induced similar behavioral responses both in courtship and feeding tests. We conclude that the inhibitory pheromone tastes bitter to the fly. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1937024?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0000661 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/ee622ed7124b4c798efc943a55102e85 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.622ed7124b4c798efc943a55102e85 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0000661 |