{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7(5)"],"submitter":["Iizuka T"],"pubmed_abstract":["Sawa-J is a polyphagous silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) strain that eats various plant leaves that normal silkworms do not. The feeding preference behavior of Sawa-J is controlled by one major recessive gene(s) on the polyphagous (pph) locus, and several minor genes; moreover, its deterrent cells possess low sensitivity to some bitter substances including salicin. To clarify whether taste sensitivity is controlled by the pph locus, we conducted a genetic analysis of the electrophysiological characteristics of the taste response using the polyphagous strain Sawa-J·lem, in which pph is linked to the visible larval marker lemon (lem) on the third chromosome, and the normal strain Daiankyo, in which the wild-type gene of pph (+(pph)) is marked with Zebra (Ze). Maxillary taste neurons of the two stra"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pagination":["e37549"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3359296"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Genetic analysis of the electrophysiological response to salicin, a bitter substance, in a polyphagous strain of the silkworm Bombyx mori."],"pmcid":["PMC3359296"],"pubmed_authors":["Mase K","Iizuka T","Asaoka K","Tamura T","Sezutsu H","Okada E"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Genetic analysis of the electrophysiological response to salicin, a bitter substance, in a polyphagous strain of the silkworm Bombyx mori.","description":"Sawa-J is a polyphagous silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) strain that eats various plant leaves that normal silkworms do not. The feeding preference behavior of Sawa-J is controlled by one major recessive gene(s) on the polyphagous (pph) locus, and several minor genes; moreover, its deterrent cells possess low sensitivity to some bitter substances including salicin. To clarify whether taste sensitivity is controlled by the pph locus, we conducted a genetic analysis of the electrophysiological characteristics of the taste response using the polyphagous strain Sawa-J·lem, in which pph is linked to the visible larval marker lemon (lem) on the third chromosome, and the normal strain Daiankyo, in which the wild-type gene of pph (+(pph)) is marked with Zebra (Ze). Maxillary taste neurons of the two stra","dates":{"release":"2012-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2012","modification":"2025-04-04T14:31:54.079Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:13:16Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3359296","cross_references":{"pubmed":["22649537"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0037549"]}}