The role of sex pheromones in the reproductive isolation of Heliothis species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) / by Peter Edmund Allan Teal.

Teal, Peter Edmund Allan

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.42369

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“…Depending on the species, calling starts on the first or second day after hatching, and sexual maturity requires up to 5 nights [9,10].…”

Section: The Wild Behaviour Of Female Mothsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neuroscience Needs Ethology: The Marked Example of the Moth Pheromone System

Thevenon¹

2020

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The key premise of translational studies is that knowledge gained in one animal species can be transposed to other animals. So far translational bridges have mainly relied on genetic and physiological similarities, in experimental setups where behaviours and environment are often oversimplified. These simplifications were recently criticised for decreasing the intrinsic value of the published results. The inclusion of wild behaviour and rich environments in neuroscience experimental designs is difficult to achieve because no animal model has it all. As an example, the genetic toolkit of moths species is virtually non-existent when compared to C. elegans, rats, mice, or zebrafish, however the balance is reversed for wild behaviours. The ethological knowledge gathered about the moth was instrumental for designing natural-like auditory stimuli, that were used in association with electrophysiology in order to understand how moths use these variable sounds produced by their predators in order to trump death. Conversely, we are still stuck with understanding how male moths make sense of their complex and diffuse olfactory landscape in order to locate conspecific females up to several hundred meters away, and precisely identify a conspecific in a sympatric swarm in order to reproduce. This systemic review articulates the ethological knowledge pertaining to this unresolved problem and leverages the paradigm to gain insight into how male moths process sparse and uncertain environmental sensory information.

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“…Depending on the species, calling starts on the first or second day after hatching, and sexual maturity requires up to 5 nights [9,10].…”

Section: The Wild Behaviour Of Female Mothsmentioning

confidence: 99%