化学交流在昆虫中广泛存在,并被用来调整它们的行为,比如食物和栖息地的寻找和偏好,招募,防御,和伴侣的吸引力。最近,许多研究表明,微生物共生体可以通过影响昆虫化学信息素的合成和感知来调节宿主的化学通讯。在本文中,我们回顾了微生物共生体对昆虫化学感受影响的最新研究。微生物共生体可能通过调节气味结合蛋白或化学感应蛋白和嗅觉或味觉受体的合成以及调节宿主神经传递来影响昆虫对化学信息素的敏感性。从而调整昆虫的行为。微生物共生体对昆虫化感行为的操纵有利于其增殖和扩散,为昆虫改变摄食习性和聚集扩散行为提供了动力,这有助于昆虫的种群分化。未来的研究有必要揭示双方之间的物质和信息交换,以提高我们对昆虫化学感受演变的理解。通过接种微生物来操纵昆虫的化学接受生理学可以用作管理昆虫种群的潜在方法。
Chemical communication is widespread among insects and exploited to adjust their behavior, such as food and habitat seeking and preferences, recruitment, defense, and mate attraction. Recently, many studies have revealed that microbial symbionts could regulate host chemical communication by affecting the synthesis and perception of insect semiochemicals. In this paper, we review recent studies of the influence of microbial symbionts on insect
chemoreception. Microbial symbionts may influence insect sensitivity to semiochemicals by regulating the synthesis of odorant-binding proteins or chemosensory proteins and olfactory or gustatory receptors and regulating host neurotransmission, thereby adjusting insect behavior. The manipulation of insect chemosensory behavior by microbial symbionts is conducive to their proliferation and dispersal and provides the impetus for insects to change their feeding habits and aggregation and dispersal behavior, which contributes to population differentiation in insects. Future research is necessary to reveal the material and information exchange between both partners to improve our comprehension of the evolution of
chemoreception in insects. Manipulating insect
chemoreception physiology by inoculating them with microbes could be utilized as a potential approach to managing insect populations.