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Even though hundreds of allomonic or kairomonic molecules have been shown to affect insect behavior through neurophysiological actions, little research attention has been given to the involved energy-transferring macromolecules in chemosensitive neurons in sensilla. Much of the consideration of receptor aspects of insect chemical communication that has occurred has involved making inferences based on the properties of the messenger molecules and the characteristics of resultant insect behavior (e.g., Kafka and Neuwirth, 1975). However, direct study of candidate receptors has involved the “sugar-splitting” enzyme activity in the receptor-containing leg of the blowfly, Phormia regina, as initiated by Dethier (1955). Hansen (1969) subsequently showed a correlation between the distribution of glucosidase activity and the number of chemosensilla on the tarsus of the blowfly. It was proposed that a sugar-glucosidase complex formed as the first reaction between the sugar and the receptor. Norris and coworkers (Gilbert et al., 1967) started research on the 1, 4-naphthoquinones (e.g., juglone in Carya spp.) as allomones for Scolytus multistriatus and Periplaneta americana, and have investigated the neural receptors for these ligands. Findings on the sugar receptor of the blowfly and the naphthoquinone (e.g., bitter) receptor of the latter two mentioned insects will be the focus of this chapter.
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Norris, D.M. (1979). Chemoreceptor Proteins. In: Narahashi, T. (eds) Neurotoxicology of Insecticides and Pheromones. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0970-3_4
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