supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872227 to JXZ and 32070451 to YHZ).
Pheromones and olfactory communication play vital roles in sex recognition and mate choice in rodents.Asian house rats(Rattus tanezumi)(RT)often startle easily,making behavioral measurements difficult to carry out acc...
supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(No.6692022YFC2602500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.32070451 to Y.H.Z.and 31872227 to J.X.Z.).
The ability to recognize and differentiate between conspecifics and heterospecifics as well as their signals is critical for the coexistence of closely related species.In the genus Rattus,species are morphologically s...
Adaptability and dynamicity are special properties of social insects derived from the decentralized behavior of the insects. Authors have come up with designs for software solution that can regulate traffic congestion...
supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020MC121);the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFD0201705).
The complex and efficient sex pheromone communication system in insects is essential for reproduction and for reproductive isolation of species.In moths,sex pheromone communication starts with male attraction to compo...
supported,in part,by the NationalScience Foundation of China(32270525,31970391;the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi(2021JM-053,2021JM-212,and 2020JM-280);the Space Science Research and Application of Chinese Manned Space Program(YYWT-0901-EXP-10);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(GK201902008).We appreciate all researchers sharing public resources in the iORbase,and constructing and organizing the databases.We kindly thank Wikipedia,PubChem(https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov),Insect Pheromone database(https://www.pherobase.com),Chembl(https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl),NCBI assembly database(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly),and PyDescriptor(https://ochem.eu)for publicly available information and images.Wethank Dr.Su-Fang Wang from Northwestern Poly-technical University for helpful suggestions in this work.
Insect olfactory receptors(iORs)with atypical 7-transmembrane domains,unlike Chordata olfactory receptors,are not in the GPCR protein family.iORs selectively bind to volatile ligands in the environment and affect esse...
This work was supported by the Key Sci-Tech Project of Shaanxi Province(No.2018ZDXM-NY-034);the Innovation Capability Support Program of Shaanxi Province(No.2018-TD-021),China;support by the Northwest A&F University and the reproductive biology and cell engineering team.We acknowledge Mr.Xuezhe ZHANG at the Shaanxi Baosen Musk Deer Industry Co.,Ltd.(Shaanxi,China)for providing experimental animals.
Background The musk glands of adult male Chinese forest musk deer(Moschus berezovskii Flerov,1929)(FMD),which are considered as special skin glands,secrete a mixture of sebum,lipids,and proteins into the musk pod.Toge...
supported by the DEFENCE SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY GROUP(DSTG)(9729);The Commonwealth of Australia supported this research through a Defence Science Partnerships agreement with the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group。
A common assumption of coverage path planning research is a static environment.Such environments require only a single visit to each area to achieve coverage.However,some real-world environments are characterised by t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 31772535);Juan Du by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 31572317)to Zhangwu Zhao.
It is well established that pheromones are used by insects to transmit infor-mation between individuals.However,research has revealed that individual insects can be both the sender and the receiver of some pheromonal ...
Harsh environmental conditions, such as food scarcity,drought and coldness, are ubiquitous threats to most living things. During evolution, organisms have developed diverse strategies to survive such inhospitable peri...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91857106 and 31770865);by the CGC,which is funded by NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs(P40 OD010440)of USA;by the Mitani Lab through the National Bio-Resource Project of the MEXT of Japan。
Developmental diapause is a widespread strategy for animals to survive seasonal starvation and environmental harshness.Diapaused animals often ration body fat to generate a basal level of energy for enduring survival....