2021
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15874
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Pheromone receptor of the globally invasive quarantine pest of the palm tree, the red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus)

Abstract: Palm trees are of immense economic, sociocultural, touristic and patrimonial significance all over the world, and date palm-related knowledge, traditions and practices are now included in UNESCO's list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Of all the pests that infest these trees, the red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) is its primary enemy. The RPW is a category-1 quarantine insect pest that causes enormous economic losses in the

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“…To our knowledge, the functional characterization of ORs is relatively poorly understood in coleopterans. Only several ORs of M. caryae (Mitchell et al, 2012), I. typographus (Hou et al, 2020;Yuvaraj et al, 2021), and R. ferrugineus (Antony et al, 2021) are broadly known for aggregation pheromone receptors of beetles. Besides, two ORs of I. typographus specifically responding to host volatiles (Hou et al, 2020) and one OR of Holotrichia parallela responding to three volatiles released by the host tree have been reported (Wang et al, 2020).…”
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“…To our knowledge, the functional characterization of ORs is relatively poorly understood in coleopterans. Only several ORs of M. caryae (Mitchell et al, 2012), I. typographus (Hou et al, 2020;Yuvaraj et al, 2021), and R. ferrugineus (Antony et al, 2021) are broadly known for aggregation pheromone receptors of beetles. Besides, two ORs of I. typographus specifically responding to host volatiles (Hou et al, 2020) and one OR of Holotrichia parallela responding to three volatiles released by the host tree have been reported (Wang et al, 2020).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The air was filtered through activated charcoal, and the entry flow to the olfactometer was 1.2 L/min controlled by using a vacuum pump. RPW was starved overnight, and the experiment was carried out during daytime between 9:00 and 17:00 h at a temperature of 27 • C ± 1 • C and a humidity of 75 ± 5% (Antony et al, 2021). During the experiment, the Y-tube olfactometer was washed with ethanol and heated every time, and the compound position was changed when every 10 adults were tested.…”
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“…The molecular basis of its chemoreception has been a center of research attention because of its potential for improving pheromone/kairomone bait and biosensors that help the early detection of this pest and mass trapping. Previous research included the identification of chemosensory-related genes [ 58 , 59 , 60 , 64 ], functional analysis of odorant binding protein and a conserved olfactory co-receptor [ 62 ], and recently identification of the aggregation pheromone receptor [ 63 ]. Our study contributes to the understanding of the complex nature of this beetle’s chemosensory function by characterizing all the gustatory receptor genes used for gustation—an under-researched area.…”
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“…Expressing RferOR1 in Drosophila olfactory neurons shows that this receptor is narrowly tuned to the aggregation pheromone components ferrugineol and ferrugineone. Disrupting this gene using RNAi significantly reduces beetles’ responses to the aggregation pheromone [ 63 ]. Recently, genome data of the R. ferrugineus has become publicly available.…”
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confidence: 99%