Gene expansion in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta drives evolution of food-associated odorant receptors

Gene expansion in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta drives evolution of food-associated odorant receptors

Summary: In insects, odorant receptors (ORs) are required for the detection of most olfactory cues. We investigated the function of a clade of four duplicated ORs in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta and found that these paralogs encode broadly tuned receptors with overlapping but distinct response spectra...

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Main Authors: Megha Treesa Tom, Philipp Brand, Sascha Bucks, Jin Zhang, Mario Ernesto Escobar Huezo, Bill S. Hansson, Sonja Bisch-Knaden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:iScience
Subjects:
Sensory neuroscience
Evolutionary ecology
Cell biology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224025422
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