Insect odor and taste receptors are highly sensitive detectors of food, mates, and oviposition sites. Following the identification of the first insect odor and taste receptors in Drosophila melanogaster, these receptors were identified in a number of other insects, including the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae; the silk moth, Bombyx mori; and the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens. The chemical specificities of many of the D. melanogaster receptors, as well as a few of the A. gambiae and B. mori receptors, have now been determined either by analysis of deletion mutants or by ectopic expression in in vivo or heterologous expression systems. Here we discuss recent advances in our understanding of the molecular and cellular basis of odor and taste coding in insects.

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昆虫的气味和味觉感受器。

昆虫的气味和味觉受体是食物，伴侣和产卵部位的高度灵敏检测器。在确定果蝇中第一个昆虫的气味和味觉受体后，在许多其他昆虫中也鉴定出了这些受体，包括疟疾媒介蚊冈比亚按蚊；蚕蛾，家蚕；和烟草芽孢杆菌Heliothis virescens。现在，通过分析缺失突变体或通过体内或异源表达系统中的异位表达，已经确定了许多黑腹果蝇D.受体以及一些冈比亚芽孢杆菌和桑蚕芽孢杆菌受体的化学特异性。在这里，我们讨论了我们对昆虫气味和味觉编码的分子和细胞基础的理解方面的最新进展。