Putative ligand binding sites of two functionally characterized bark beetle odorant receptors
Jothi Kumar Yuvaraj, Rebecca E. Roberts, Yonathan Sonntag, Xiaoqing Hou, Ewald Große‐Wilde, Aleš Machara, Dandan Zhang, Bill S. Hansson, Urban Johanson, Christer Löfstedt, Martin N. Andersson
The paper identifies and characterizes two odorant receptors in bark beetles, predicting their ligand binding sites and highlighting key residues involved in pheromone recognition.
BMC Biology · Jan 26, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience