Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment
Plants influenced the evolution of plant-dwelling stink bugs’ systems underlying communication with chemical and substrate-borne vibratory signals. Plant volatiles provides cues that increase attractiveness or interfere with the probability of finding a mate in the field. Mechanical properties of he...
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| author | Andrej Čokl Alenka Žunič-Kosi Nataša Stritih-Peljhan Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes Raúl Alberto Laumann Miguel Borges |
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| description | Plants influenced the evolution of plant-dwelling stink bugs’ systems underlying communication with chemical and substrate-borne vibratory signals. Plant volatiles provides cues that increase attractiveness or interfere with the probability of finding a mate in the field. Mechanical properties of herbaceous hosts and associated plants alter the frequency, amplitude, and temporal characteristics of stink bug species and sex-specific vibratory signals. The specificity of pheromone odor tuning has evolved through highly specific odorant receptors located within the receptor membrane. The narrow-band low-frequency characteristics of the signals produced by abdomen vibration and the frequency tuning of the highly sensitive subgenual organ vibration receptors match with filtering properties of the plants enabling optimized communication. A range of less sensitive mechanoreceptors, tuned to lower vibration frequencies, detect signals produced by other mechanisms used at less species-specific levels of communication in a plant environment. Whereas the encoding of frequency-intensity and temporal parameters of stink bug vibratory signals is relatively well investigated at low levels of processing in the ventral nerve cord, processing of this information and its integration with other modalities at higher neuronal levels still needs research attention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27b5ae0b873b49d2a81d4cf7b73beb252023-11-23T08:52:18ZengMDPI AGInsects2075-44502021-11-011212105810.3390/insects12121058Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant EnvironmentAndrej Čokl0Alenka Žunič-Kosi1Nataša Stritih-Peljhan2Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes3Raúl Alberto Laumann4Miguel Borges5Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, SI-1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaDepartment of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, SI-1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaDepartment of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, SI-1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaLaboratório de Semioquímicos Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Brasilia, Brasília 02372, BrazilLaboratório de Semioquímicos Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Brasilia, Brasília 02372, BrazilLaboratório de Semioquímicos Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia Brasilia, Brasília 02372, BrazilPlants influenced the evolution of plant-dwelling stink bugs’ systems underlying communication with chemical and substrate-borne vibratory signals. Plant volatiles provides cues that increase attractiveness or interfere with the probability of finding a mate in the field. Mechanical properties of herbaceous hosts and associated plants alter the frequency, amplitude, and temporal characteristics of stink bug species and sex-specific vibratory signals. The specificity of pheromone odor tuning has evolved through highly specific odorant receptors located within the receptor membrane. The narrow-band low-frequency characteristics of the signals produced by abdomen vibration and the frequency tuning of the highly sensitive subgenual organ vibration receptors match with filtering properties of the plants enabling optimized communication. A range of less sensitive mechanoreceptors, tuned to lower vibration frequencies, detect signals produced by other mechanisms used at less species-specific levels of communication in a plant environment. Whereas the encoding of frequency-intensity and temporal parameters of stink bug vibratory signals is relatively well investigated at low levels of processing in the ventral nerve cord, processing of this information and its integration with other modalities at higher neuronal levels still needs research attention.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/12/1058plant-dwelling insectsbiotremologyPentatominae stink bugshost plantsevolutioncommunication |
| spellingShingle | Andrej Čokl Alenka Žunič-Kosi Nataša Stritih-Peljhan Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes Raúl Alberto Laumann Miguel Borges Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment Insects plant-dwelling insects biotremology Pentatominae stink bugs host plants evolution communication |
| title | Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment |
| title_full | Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment |
| title_fullStr | Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment |
| title_short | Stink Bug Communication and Signal Detection in a Plant Environment |
| title_sort | stink bug communication and signal detection in a plant environment |
| topic | plant-dwelling insects biotremology Pentatominae stink bugs host plants evolution communication |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/12/1058 |
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