Candidate chemosensory genes in female antennae of the noctuid moth Spodoptera littoralis.

ABSTRACT: Chemical senses are crucial for all organisms to detect various environmental information. Different protein families, expressed in chemosensory organs, are involved in the detection of this information, such as odorant-binding proteins, olfactory and gustatory receptors, and ionotropic receptors. We recently reported an Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) approach on male antennae of the noctuid moth, Spodoptera littoralis, with which we could identify a large array of chemosensory genes in a species for which no genomic data are available.Here we describe a complementary EST project on female antennae in the same species. 18,342 ESTs were sequenced and their assembly with our previous male ESTs led to a total of 13,685 unigenes, greatly improving our description of the S. littoralis antennal tr

SUBMITTER: Jacquin-Joly E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3421235 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature