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Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies
The male butterfly Pieris napi produces the anti-aphrodisiac pheromone methyl salicylate (MeS) and transfers it to the female during mating. After mating she releases MeS, when courted by conspecific males, which decreases her attractiveness and the duration of male harassment, thus increasing her t...
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author | Mozuraitis, Raimondas Murtazina, Rushana Zurita, Javier Pei, Yuxin Ilag, Leopold Wiklund, Christer Karlson, Anna Karin Borg |
author_facet | Mozuraitis, Raimondas Murtazina, Rushana Zurita, Javier Pei, Yuxin Ilag, Leopold Wiklund, Christer Karlson, Anna Karin Borg |
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description | The male butterfly Pieris napi produces the anti-aphrodisiac pheromone methyl salicylate (MeS) and transfers it to the female during mating. After mating she releases MeS, when courted by conspecific males, which decreases her attractiveness and the duration of male harassment, thus increasing her time available for egg-laying. In previous studies we have shown that males produced MeS from the amino acid L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) acquired during larval stage. In this study we show that adult males of P. napi can utilize L-Phe and aromatic flower volatiles as building blocks for production of anti-aphrodisiac pheromone and transfer it to females during mating. We demonstrate this by feeding butterflies with stable isotope labelled molecules mixed in sugar solutions, and, to mimic the natural conditions, we fed male butterflies with floral nectar of Bunias orientalis plants treated with labelled L-Phe. The volatiles from butterflies and plants were collected and identified by solid phase micro extraction, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques. Since P. napi is polygamous, males would gain from restoring the titre of MeS after mating and the use of aromatic precursors for production of MeS could be considered as an advantageous trait which could enable butterflies to relocate L-Phe for other needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-67765352019-10-09 Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies Mozuraitis, Raimondas Murtazina, Rushana Zurita, Javier Pei, Yuxin Ilag, Leopold Wiklund, Christer Karlson, Anna Karin Borg Sci Rep Article The male butterfly Pieris napi produces the anti-aphrodisiac pheromone methyl salicylate (MeS) and transfers it to the female during mating. After mating she releases MeS, when courted by conspecific males, which decreases her attractiveness and the duration of male harassment, thus increasing her time available for egg-laying. In previous studies we have shown that males produced MeS from the amino acid L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) acquired during larval stage. In this study we show that adult males of P. napi can utilize L-Phe and aromatic flower volatiles as building blocks for production of anti-aphrodisiac pheromone and transfer it to females during mating. We demonstrate this by feeding butterflies with stable isotope labelled molecules mixed in sugar solutions, and, to mimic the natural conditions, we fed male butterflies with floral nectar of Bunias orientalis plants treated with labelled L-Phe. The volatiles from butterflies and plants were collected and identified by solid phase micro extraction, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques. Since P. napi is polygamous, males would gain from restoring the titre of MeS after mating and the use of aromatic precursors for production of MeS could be considered as an advantageous trait which could enable butterflies to relocate L-Phe for other needs. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6776535/ /pubmed/31582781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50838-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Mozuraitis, Raimondas Murtazina, Rushana Zurita, Javier Pei, Yuxin Ilag, Leopold Wiklund, Christer Karlson, Anna Karin Borg Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies |
title | Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies |
title_full | Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies |
title_fullStr | Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies |
title_full_unstemmed | Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies |
title_short | Anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies |
title_sort | anti-aphrodisiac pheromone, a renewable signal in adult butterflies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31582781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50838-1 |
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