High Antennal Expression of CYP6K1 and CYP4V2 Participate in the Recognition of Alarm Pheromones by Solenopsis invicta Buren.

ABSTRACT: Insects have highly developed olfactory systems in which cytochrome P450s (CYPs) were involved as odor-degrading enzymes throughout the olfactory recognition of odor compounds by insects to avoid continuous stimulation of signaling molecules and thus damage to the olfactory nervous. To understand whether the highly expressed CYPs in the antennae play an olfactory function in Solenopsis invicta worker, in this study, we find six highly expressed antennal CYPs from the transcriptome of S. invicta. Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis divided them into two families: the CYP3 family (SinvCYP6K1, SinvCYP6K1-1) and the CYP4 family (SinvCYP4C1, SinvCYP4C1-1, SinvCYP4C1-2, SinvCYP4V2). The expression patterns of these six CYP

SUBMITTER: Jiang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11765799 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature