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| Hostachy, Camille; Couzi, Philippe; Portemer, Guillaume; Hanafi-portier, Melissa; Murmu, Meena; Deisig, Nina; Dacher, Matthieu. |
| In several insects, sex-pheromones are essential for reproduction and reproductive isolation. Pheromones generally elicit stereotyped behaviors. In moths, these are attraction to conspecific sex-pheromone sources and deterrence for heterospecific sex-pheromone. Contrasting with these innate behaviors, some results in social insects point toward effects of non-sex-pheromones on perception and learning. We report the effects of sex-pheromone pre-exposure on gustatory perception and habituation (a non-associative learning) in male Agrotis ipsilon moths, a non-social insect. We also studied the effect of Z5-decenyl acetate (Z5), a compound of the sex-pheromone of the related species Agrotis segetum. We hypothesized that conspecific sex-pheromone and Z5 would... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Insect; Moth; Gustatory perception; Sugar responsiveness; Non-associative learning; Habituation; Proboscis extension response; Pheromone. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00599/71120/69422.pdf |
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