• DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.035
Corpus ID: 2414559

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

@article{Tanaka2009HighlyST,
  title={Highly Selective Tuning of a Silkworm Olfactory Receptor to a Key Mulberry Leaf Volatile},
  author={K. Tanaka and Y. Uda and Y. Ono and Tatsuro Nakagawa and M. Suwa and R. Yamaoka and K. Touhara},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2009},
  volume={19},
  pages={881-890}
}

K. Tanaka, Y. Uda, +4 authors K. Touhara

Published 2009

Biology, Medicine

Current Biology

BACKGROUND The olfactory system plays an important role in the recognition of leaf volatiles during the search of folivore insects for a suitable plant host. For example, volatiles emitted by mulberry leaves trigger chemotaxis behavior in the silkworms Bombyx mori, and as a consequence, they preferentially reside on and consume mulberry leaves. Here, we aimed to identify natural chemoattractants and their corresponding olfactory receptors (Ors) involved in silkworm behavior to mulberry leaves… CONTINUE READING

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