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An olfactory receptor for food-derived odours promotes male courtship in Drosophila

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  • Yael Grosjean

    (Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, UMR-6265 CNRS, UMR-1324 INRA, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France)

  • Raphael Rytz

    (Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

  • Jean-Pierre Farine

    (Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, UMR-6265 CNRS, UMR-1324 INRA, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France)

  • Liliane Abuin

    (Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

  • Jérôme Cortot

    (Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, UMR-6265 CNRS, UMR-1324 INRA, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France)

  • Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis

    (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK)

  • Richard Benton

    (Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

Abstract

If food be the food of love... Courtship is a costly business in terms of both time and energy, so animals must make sure that they've found a willing partner before making the effort — a job often done through pheromone communication. Now Richard Benton and colleagues have discovered that fruitfly males also need the proximity of good food before they commit to a courtship routine. They identify a member of a recently described chemosensory ion-channel family — Ionotropic receptor 84a — as key to sensing fruit-derived aromatics and gating pheromone-sensing neuronal pathways that control courtship routines. Such cross-talk between olfactory and pheromonal circuits constitutes a previously unrecognized evolutionary mechanism coupling reproductive behaviour to good feeding and oviposition sites.

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  • Yael Grosjean & Raphael Rytz & Jean-Pierre Farine & Liliane Abuin & Jérôme Cortot & Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis & Richard Benton, 2011. "An olfactory receptor for food-derived odours promotes male courtship in Drosophila," Nature, Nature, vol. 478(7368), pages 236-240, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:478:y:2011:i:7368:d:10.1038_nature10428
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10428
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