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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Male-derived PBP4 is essential for sperm competition by mediating sperm motility in moths.

Yu He, Qi Yan, Jing-Hao Hou, Ying Li, Zhi-Qiang Wei, Jin-Meng Guo, Nai-Yong Liu, Markus Knaden, Bill S Hansson, Shuang-Lin Dong and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Yu HeState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Qi YanState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Jing-Hao HouState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Ying LiState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Zhi-Qiang WeiState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Jin-Meng GuoState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Nai-Yong LiuKey Laboratory of Forest Disaster Warning and Control of Yunnan Province, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
Markus KnadenDepartment of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6710-1071
Bill S HanssonDepartment of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4811-1223
Shuang-Lin DongState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7483-1961
Jin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0077-0748

Funding

MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China (NKPs) 2023YFD1401000MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 31872300MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 32372530
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Male moths rely on antennal olfactory sensilla to detect female-emitted sex pheromones during mate localization, a process critically mediated by pheromone-binding proteins (PBPs) that facilitate ligand transport to dendritic membrane-bound pheromone receptors. Intriguingly, a divergent PBP paralog (PBP4) in noctuid moths has been identified exhibiting predominant expression in the male reproductive system, though its functional significance remained elusive. In this study with

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Carrier ProteinsInsect ProteinsMothsSpermatozoaSperm MotilitySpodopteraAnimalsFemaleMaleReceptors, OdorantSex AttractantsCarrier ProteinsInsect Proteinspheromone binding protein, insectReceptors, OdorantSex AttractantsPBP-OR pathwaypheromone-binding proteinsperm competitionsperm motilitySpodoptera exigua

Identifiers

PMID41150721
PMCPMC12595504

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