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The smell of love in Drosophila
Odors are key sensory signals for social communication and food search in animals including insects. Drosophila melanogaster, is a powerful neurogenetic model commonly used to reveal molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in odorant detection. Males use olfaction together with other sensory moda...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23576993 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00072 |
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author | Ziegler, Anna B. Berthelot-Grosjean, Martine Grosjean, Yael |
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description | Odors are key sensory signals for social communication and food search in animals including insects. Drosophila melanogaster, is a powerful neurogenetic model commonly used to reveal molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in odorant detection. Males use olfaction together with other sensory modalities to find their mates. Here, we review known olfactory signals, their related olfactory receptors, and the corresponding neuronal architecture impacting courtship. OR67d receptor detects 11-cis-Vaccenyl Acetate (cVA), a male specific pheromone transferred to the female during copulation. Transferred cVA is able to reduce female attractiveness for other males after mating, and is also suspected to decrease male-male courtship. cVA can also serve as an aggregation signal, maybe through another OR. OR47b was shown to be activated by fly odors, and to enhance courtship depending on taste pheromones. IR84a detects phenylacetic acid (PAA) and phenylacetaldehyde (PA). These two odors are not pheromones produced by flies, but are present in various fly food sources. PAA enhances male courtship, acting as a food aphrodisiac. Drosophila males have thus developed complementary olfactory strategies to help them to select their mates. |
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spelling | pubmed-36174462013-04-10 The smell of love in Drosophila Ziegler, Anna B. Berthelot-Grosjean, Martine Grosjean, Yael Front Physiol Physiology Odors are key sensory signals for social communication and food search in animals including insects. Drosophila melanogaster, is a powerful neurogenetic model commonly used to reveal molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in odorant detection. Males use olfaction together with other sensory modalities to find their mates. Here, we review known olfactory signals, their related olfactory receptors, and the corresponding neuronal architecture impacting courtship. OR67d receptor detects 11-cis-Vaccenyl Acetate (cVA), a male specific pheromone transferred to the female during copulation. Transferred cVA is able to reduce female attractiveness for other males after mating, and is also suspected to decrease male-male courtship. cVA can also serve as an aggregation signal, maybe through another OR. OR47b was shown to be activated by fly odors, and to enhance courtship depending on taste pheromones. IR84a detects phenylacetic acid (PAA) and phenylacetaldehyde (PA). These two odors are not pheromones produced by flies, but are present in various fly food sources. PAA enhances male courtship, acting as a food aphrodisiac. Drosophila males have thus developed complementary olfactory strategies to help them to select their mates. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3617446/ /pubmed/23576993 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00072 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ziegler, Berthelot-Grosjean and Grosjean. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc. |
spellingShingle | Physiology Ziegler, Anna B. Berthelot-Grosjean, Martine Grosjean, Yael The smell of love in Drosophila |
title | The smell of love in Drosophila |
title_full | The smell of love in Drosophila |
title_fullStr | The smell of love in Drosophila |
title_full_unstemmed | The smell of love in Drosophila |
title_short | The smell of love in Drosophila |
title_sort | smell of love in drosophila |
topic | Physiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23576993 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00072 |
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