Consequences of interspecies antennal imaginal disc transplantation on organization of olfactory glomeruli and pheromone blend discrimination.
Consequences of interspecies antennal imaginal disc transplantation on organization of olfactory glomeruli and pheromone blend discrimination.
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种间触角成虫盘移植对嗅觉肾小球组织和信息素混合辨别的影响。
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10.1002/cne.10890
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2003
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LinnJr,CharlesE
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Vickers,NeilJ;Poole,Kathy;LinnJr,CharlesE
The antennal imaginal disc was transplanted between male larvae of two different heliothine moth species,Heliothis virescens(HV) andHelicoverpa zea(HZ). Males of these species respond to distinct pheromone blends, have different peripheral and central olfactory neuron specificities, as well as distinct arrangements of antennal lobe olfactory glomeruli, in the specialized male macroglomerular complex (MGC). After pupal development and adult eclosion, unilateral (with one antennal disc left intact) and bilateral antennal transplant males were assayed in a wind tunnel to both species' pheromone blends to determine their ability to discriminate between the two signals. The postmetamorphic developmental effects of interspecific transplantation upon the primary olfactory centers in the moth brain were then examined in these same individuals. Behavioral tests showed that both types of unilateral transplant continued to exhibit upwind anemotactic flight to the normal recipient blend with occasional flights to the donor blend. In contrast, bilateral transplants preferred theHVpheromone blend regardless of the direction of transplant, with some males of each type also responding to theHZblend. Neuroanatomic evaluation of the MGC revealed that the donor arrangement of MGC glomeruli was induced in 73%HZdonor toHVrecipient transplants and 56% of the reciprocal transplant. Surprisingly, several V‐Z bilateral transplant males responded to bothHVandHZpheromone blends and had twoHVMGC structures. This behavioral outcome was unexpected, because responses to theHVblend are mediated by inputs that are normally antagonistic toHZmales and the normalHVantenna lacks olfactory receptor neurons capable of responding to the essential minor pheromone component of theHZblend. These data indicate a plasticity in developmental pathways regulating the expression of peripheral olfactory receptor neurons and in the glomerular processing of species‐specific olfactory information. J. Comp. Neurol. 466:377–388, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.