Title: | Unusual pheromone receptor neuron responses in heliothine moth antennae derived from inter-species imaginal disc transplantation |
Author(s): | Ochieng SA; Poole K; Linn CE; Vickers NJ; Roelofs WL; Baker TC; |
Address: | "Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA. sochieng@iastate.edu" |
Journal Title: | J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00359-002-0371-1 |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0340-7594 (Print) 0340-7594 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Single-cell electrophysiological recordings were obtained from olfactory receptor neurons housed in sensilla trichodea along the adult antennae arising from transplantation of the antennal imaginal discs between larval male Helicoverpa zea and Heliothis virescens. The olfactory receptor neurons from the majority of type C sensilla sampled on transplanted antennae displayed response characteristics consistent with those of the species that donated the antennae. However, some of the sensilla type C sampled in either transplant type contained olfactory receptor neurons that responded in a manner typical of the recipient species or other neurons that have not previously been found in the type C sensilla of either species. The single-cell data help to explain behavioral results showing that some transplant males do fly upwind to both species' pheromone blends, an outcome not expected based on known antennal sensory phenotypes. Our results suggest that host tissue can influence antennal olfactory receptor neuron development, and further that because of a common phylogenetic ancestry the donor tissue has the genetic capability to produce a variety of sensillar and receptor types" |
Keywords: | "Action Potentials/drug effects Animals Chemoreceptor Cells/*metabolism Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Electrophysiology Moths Neurons/classification/*drug effects Olfactory Nerve/anatomy & histology/cytology/*drug effects/transplantation Pheromones/*pha;" |
Notes: | "MedlineOchieng, S A Poole, K Linn, C E Jr Vickers, N J Roelofs, W L Baker, T C eng 1 R55 DC04443-01/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ Comparative Study Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. Germany 2003/01/28 J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2003 Jan; 189(1):19-28. doi: 10.1007/s00359-002-0371-1. Epub 2002 Nov 20" |