| Title: | Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment |
| Author(s): | Cokl A; Zunic-Kosi A; Stritih-Peljhan N; Blassioli-Moraes MC; Laumann RA; Borges M; |
| Address: | "Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Laboratorio de Semioquimicos Embrapa Recursos Geneticos e Biotecnologia Brasilia, Brasilia 02372, Brazil" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Plants influenced the evolution of plant-dwelling stink bugs' systems underlying communication with chemical and substrate-borne vibratory signals. Plant volatiles provides cues that increase attractiveness or interfere with the probability of finding a mate in the field. Mechanical properties of herbaceous hosts and associated plants alter the frequency, amplitude, and temporal characteristics of stink bug species and sex-specific vibratory signals. The specificity of pheromone odor tuning has evolved through highly specific odorant receptors located within the receptor membrane. The narrow-band low-frequency characteristics of the signals produced by abdomen vibration and the frequency tuning of the highly sensitive subgenual organ vibration receptors match with filtering properties of the plants enabling optimized communication. A range of less sensitive mechanoreceptors, tuned to lower vibration frequencies, detect signals produced by other mechanisms used at less species-specific levels of communication in a plant environment. Whereas the encoding of frequency-intensity and temporal parameters of stink bug vibratory signals is relatively well investigated at low levels of processing in the ventral nerve cord, processing of this information and its integration with other modalities at higher neuronal levels still needs research attention" |
| Keywords: | Pentatominae stink bugs biotremology communication evolution host plants plant-dwelling insects sensory system signals transmission medium; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINECokl, Andrej Zunic-Kosi, Alenka Stritih-Peljhan, Natasa Blassioli-Moraes, Maria Carolina Laumann, Raul Alberto Borges, Miguel eng No. P1-0255 B and Proj. No. J1-8142/Slovenian Research Agency/ FAP-DF, Project 193.000.978/2015/Research Support Foundation of the Federal District/ EMBRAPA/Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation/ CNPq/National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/ Review Switzerland 2021/12/24 Insects. 2021 Nov 25; 12(12):1058. doi: 10.3390/insects12121058" |
