RRC ID 30566
著者 Namiki S, Daimon T, Iwatsuki C, Shimada T, Kanzaki R.
タイトル Antennal lobe organization and pheromone usage in bombycid moths.
ジャーナル Biol Lett
Abstract We investigated the neuroanatomy of the macroglomerular complex (MGC), which is involved in sex pheromone processing, in five species in the subfamily Bombycinae, including Ernolatia moorei, Trilocha varians, Rondotia menciana, Bombyx mandarina and Bombyx mori. The glomerulus located at the dorsal-most part of the olfactory centre shows the largest volume in moth species examined to date. Such normal glomerular organization has been observed in E. moorei and T. varians, which use a two-component mixture and includes the compound bombykal as a mating signal. By contrast, the other three species, which use another component as a single attractant, exhibited a modified arrangement of the MGC. This correlation between pheromone usage and neural organization may be useful for understanding the process of speciation.
巻・号 10(4)
ページ 20140096
公開日 2014-1-1
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0096
PII rsbl.2014.0096
PMID 24759369
PMC PMC4013697
MeSH Animals Arthropod Antennae / anatomy & histology* Arthropod Antennae / physiology Moths / anatomy & histology* Moths / metabolism Moths / physiology Sex Attractants / metabolism* Sexual Behavior, Animal Species Specificity
IF 2.869
引用数 8
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