Mimicking insect signaling: Artificial gland for biosynthesis and release of semiochemicals for communication

Author

Bula, W.P. ; Dimov, N.G. ; Muñoz, L. ; Carot-Sans, G. ; Guerrero, A. ; Gardeniers, J.G.E.

Author_Institution

MESA+ Inst. for Nanotechnol., Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

fYear

2012

fDate

Jan. 29 2012-Feb. 2 2012

Firstpage

862

Lastpage

865

Abstract

We explore the functionality of a complete chemoemitter platform mimicking the biosynthetic pathways and release of female sex pheromones of the Spodoptera littoralis moth. This artificial gland system consists of a microreactor in which the pheromone biosynthesis takes place, and a micromachined evaporator that releases ratiometrically-encoded blend into the environment. The artificial gland was implemented for the investigation and detection of patterns by highly sensitive olfaction system of male moths in electroantennographic and behavioral assays. Thus, a new information emission scheme by utilizing semiochemicals as a data carrier was demonstrated.

Keywords

bioMEMS; bioelectric phenomena; biological techniques; biomimetics; chemioception; microreactors; Spodoptera littoralis moth; artificial gland; behavioral assay; biosynthesis; chemoemitter platform; electroantennographic assay; female sex pheromones; insect signaling; micromachined evaporator; microreactor; olfaction system; ratiometrically-encoded blend; semiochemicals; Antennas; Biochemistry; Chemicals; Glands; Insects; Microfluidics; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2012 IEEE 25th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1084-6999

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0324-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMSYS.2012.6170322

Filename

6170322