Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies

IF 5.8 1区农林科学 Q1 BIOLOGY

Current opinion in insect science Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2024.101249

Dan-Dan Zhang

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Abstract

Ticks pose a major threat to the health of humans and animals. The use of synthetic acaricides and repellents has raised the concerns of potential health and environmental risks and increasing resistance in ticks. This article highlights the importance of the research on tick chemosensation in developing novel control agents. It provides a review on our current understanding of tick chemosensory system and proposes using chemosensory receptor (CR) genes as molecular targets to discover novel tick control agents. The releases of high-quality tick genomes provide unprecedented opportunities to explore CR gene repertoires. Further functional characterization is necessary to identify the receptors for key chemical cues and signals and unravel whether tick chemosensation involves ionotropic and/or metabotropic mechanisms.

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蜱虫化学感应及其对新型控制策略的影响。

蜱虫对人类和动物的健康构成重大威胁。合成杀螨剂和驱虫剂的使用引起了人们对潜在健康和环境风险以及蜱虫抗药性增加的担忧。本文强调了蜱虫化学感受性研究在开发新型控制剂方面的重要性。文章回顾了我们目前对蜱虫化感系统的了解，并提出利用化感受体（CR）基因作为发现新型蜱虫控制剂的分子靶标。高质量蜱基因组的发布为探索CR基因库提供了前所未有的机会。有必要进行进一步的功能鉴定，以确定关键化学线索和信号的受体，并揭示蜱的化学感受是否涉及离子和/或代谢机制。

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来源期刊

Current opinion in insect science BIOLOGYECOLOGYENTOMOLOGY-ECOLOGY

CiteScore

10.40

自引率

1.90%

发文量

113

期刊介绍： Current Opinion in Insect Science is a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up–to–date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Insect Science. As this is such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections each of which is reviewed once a year. The following 11 areas are covered by Current Opinion in Insect Science. -Ecology -Insect genomics -Global Change Biology -Molecular Physiology (Including Immunity) -Pests and Resistance -Parasites, Parasitoids and Biological Control -Behavioural Ecology -Development and Regulation -Social Insects -Neuroscience -Vectors and Medical and Veterinary Entomology There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. Section Editors, who are major authorities in their area, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission articles from leading scientists on each topic that they have selected and the commissioned authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.