A pleiotropic chemoreceptor facilitates the production and perception of mating pheromones
Cassondra Vernier, Nicole Leitner, Kathleen M. Zelle, Merrin Foltz, Sophia Dutton, Xitong Liang, Sean Halloran, Jocelyn G. Millar, Yehuda Ben‐Shahar
Abstract
independently regulates the behavioral responses of males and females to a putative inhibitory pheromone, as well as its production in the fat body and oenocytes of males. Overall, these findings provide a relatively simple molecular explanation for how pleiotropic receptors maintain robust mating signaling systems at the population and species levels.
Topics & Concepts
PheromoneMatingBiologySex pheromonePopulationChemoreceptorGeneticsEvolutionary biologyNeuroscienceReceptorDemographySociologyNeurobiology and Insect Physiology ResearchInsect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorPlant and animal studies