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SUBMITTER: Lin W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4466458 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Wei W Yu Yanxue Y Zhou Ping P Zhang Junhua J Dou Liduo L Hao Qin Q Chen Hongjun H Zhu Shuifang S
International journal of biological sciences 20150522 7
The gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, is an important economic pest that causes large-scale damage to forests worldwide. Because of its important role in initiating and controlling insect behavior, olfaction-and olfaction-based pest management-has drawn increasing attention from entomologists. In this study, we identified the gene that encodes the olfactory receptor co-receptor (OrCo). Through amino acid sequence alignment, we found that LdisOrCo shares high identity with other OrCo proteins from di ...[more]