AUTHOR=Johny Jibin , Diallo Souleymane , Lukšan Ondřej , Shewale Mayuri , Kalinová Blanka , Hanus Robert , Große-Wilde Ewald TITLE=Conserved orthology in termite chemosensory gene families JOURNAL=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution VOLUME=10 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.1065947 DOI=10.3389/fevo.2022.1065947 ISSN=2296-701X ABSTRACT=
Termites are eusocial insects known to use a variety of pheromones in tasks necessary for maintenance of their societies. As such, olfaction and pheromone communication in termites has been an object of intense study; trail-following pheromones (TFPs) and sex-pairing pheromones (SPPs), for example, have been identified in many termite species. In contrast, the molecular basis of olfactory detection is understudied in the group. Here, we present chemosensory genes of three species of termites belonging to three distinct lineages,