| Title: | Antennal lobe organization and pheromone usage in bombycid moths |
| Author(s): | Namiki S; Daimon T; Iwatsuki C; Shimada T; Kanzaki R; |
| Address: | "Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, , Tokyo, Japan" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1744-957X (Electronic) 1744-9561 (Print) 1744-9561 (Linking) |
| 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" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Arthropod Antennae/*anatomy & histology/physiology Moths/*anatomy & histology/metabolism/physiology Sex Attractants/*metabolism Sexual Behavior, Animal Species Specificity Bombycidae antennal lobe neurophylogeny pheromone;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineNamiki, Shigehiro Daimon, Takaaki Iwatsuki, Chika Shimada, Toru Kanzaki, Ryohei eng Comparative Study Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2014/04/25 Biol Lett. 2014 Apr 23; 10(4):20140096. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0096. Print 2014" |
