Molecular Evolution of the Odorant and Gustatory Receptor Genes in Lepidopteran Insects: Implications for Their Adaptation and Speciation

Behavioural and genetic analyses of Nasonia shed light on the evolution of sex pheromones

(2013) Oliver Niehuis et al.   NATURE

A heterozygous moth genome provides insights into herbivory and detoxification

(2013) Minsheng You et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Identification and Characterization of Pheromone Receptors and Interplay between Receptors and Pheromone Binding Proteins in the Diamondback Moth, Plutella xyllostella

(2013) Mengjing Sun et al.   PLoS One

Timing and Patterns in the Taxonomic Diversification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

(2013) Niklas Wahlberg et al.   PLoS One

Female Behaviour Drives Expression and Evolution of Gustatory Receptors in Butterflies

(2013) Adriana D. Briscoe et al.   PLoS Genetics

Identification of chemosensory receptor genes in Manduca sexta and knockdown by RNA interference

(2012) Natalie Howlett et al.   BMC GENOMICS

LARGE-SCALE CANDIDATE GENE SCAN REVEALS THE ROLE OF CHEMORECEPTOR GENES IN HOST PLANT SPECIALIZATION AND SPECIATION IN THE PEA APHID

(2012) Carole M. Smadja et al.   EVOLUTION

Sequencing and characterizing odorant receptors of the cerambycid beetle Megacyllene caryae

(2012) Robert F. Mitchell et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A male-specific odorant receptor conserved through the evolution of sex pheromones in Ostrinia moth species

(2012) Nami Miura et al.   International Journal of Biological Sciences

Putative Chemosensory Receptors of the Codling Moth, Cydia pomonella, Identified by Antennal Transcriptome Analysis

(2012) Jonas M. Bengtsson et al.   PLoS One

Single mutation to a sex pheromone receptor provides adaptive specificity between closely related moth species

(2012) G. P. Leary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sex Pheromone Evolution Is Associated with Differential Regulation of the Same Desaturase Gene in Two Genera of Leafroller Moths

(2012) Jérôme Albre et al.   PLoS Genetics

BadiRate: estimating family turnover rates by likelihood-based methods

(2011) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An Expressed Sequence Tag collection from the male antennae of the Noctuid moth Spodoptera littoralis: a resource for olfactory and pheromone detection research

(2011) Fabrice Legeai et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Monarch Butterfly Genome Yields Insights into Long-Distance Migration

(2011) Shuai Zhan et al.   CELL

Sex chromosome evolution in moths and butterflies

(2011) Ken Sahara et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Comparative Genomics of the Odorant-Binding and Chemosensory Protein Gene Families across the Arthropoda: Origin and Evolutionary History of the Chemosensory System

(2011) Filipe G. Vieira et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Sex-Linked Pheromone Receptor Genes of the European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, Are in Tandem Arrays

(2011) Yuji Yasukochi et al.   PLoS One

Topological and Functional Characterization of an Insect Gustatory Receptor

(2011) Hui-Jie Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Sugar-regulated cation channel formed by an insect gustatory receptor

(2011) K. Sato et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)

(2011) C. D. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antennal transcriptome of Manduca sexta

(2011) E. Grosse-Wilde et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

(2011) C. R. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analyses of lepidopteran sex pheromones by mass spectrometry

(2011) Tetsu Ando et al.   TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

A Single Sex Pheromone Receptor Determines Chemical Response Specificity of Sexual Behavior in the Silkmoth Bombyx mori

(2011) Takeshi Sakurai et al.   PLoS Genetics

Broadly and narrowly tuned odorant receptors are involved in female sex pheromone reception in Ostrinia moths

(2010) Nami Miura et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The insect chemoreceptor superfamily of the parasitoid jewel waspNasonia vitripennis

(2010) H. M. Robertson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Differential expression of odorant receptor genes involved in the sexual isolation of two Heliothis moths

(2010) G. M. Vásquez et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Functional characterization of pheromone receptors in the tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens

(2010) G. Wang et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Allelic variation in a fatty-acyl reductase gene causes divergence in moth sex pheromones

(2010) Jean-Marc Lassance et al.   NATURE

Sex Pheromone Receptor Specificity in the European Corn Borer Moth, Ostrinia nubilalis

(2010) Kevin W. Wanner et al.   PLoS One

An Odorant Receptor from the Southern House Mosquito Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus Sensitive to Oviposition Attractants

(2010) Julien Pelletier et al.   PLoS One

Sexual isolation of male moths explained by a single pheromone response QTL containing four receptor genes

(2010) F. Gould et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolving olfactory systems on the fly

(2010) Pavan Ramdya et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Evolution of the sugar receptors in insects

(2009) Lauren B Kent et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

HR11 and HR13 Receptor-Expressing Neurons Are Housed Together in Pheromone-Responsive Sensilla Trichodea of Male Heliothis virescens

(2009) J. Krieger et al.   CHEMICAL SENSES

Nearest Neural Neighbors: Moth Sex Pheromone Receptors HR11 and HR13

(2009) T. C. Baker   CHEMICAL SENSES

Highly Selective Tuning of a Silkworm Olfactory Receptor to a Key Mulberry Leaf Volatile

(2009) Kana Tanaka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A taste of the Drosophila gustatory receptors

(2009) Craig Montell   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Large Gene Family Expansions and Adaptive Evolution for Odorant and Gustatory Receptors in the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2009) C. Smadja et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

On the scent of speciation: the chemosensory system and its role in premating isolation

(2008) C Smadja et al.   HEREDITY

The genome of a lepidopteran model insect, the silkworm Bombyx mori

(2008) The International Silkworm Genome   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Molecular basis of female-specific odorant responses in Bombyx mori

(2008) Alisha R. Anderson et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The gustatory receptor family in the silkworm mothBombyx moriis characterized by a large expansion of a single lineage of putative bitter receptors

(2008) K. W. Wanner et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Drosophilachemoreceptor gene evolution: selection, specialization and genome size

(2008) ANASTASIA GARDINER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Insect olfactory receptors are heteromeric ligand-gated ion channels

(2008) Koji Sato et al.   NATURE

Drosophila odorant receptors are both ligand-gated and cyclic-nucleotide-activated cation channels

(2008) Dieter Wicher et al.   NATURE

The red flour beetle's large nose: An expanded odorant receptor gene family in Tribolium castaneum

(2007) Patamarerk Engsontia et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY