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1. Preparation of Instruments and Insect
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	<li>Preparing tungsten electrodes and stimuli solutions
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		<li>Fix a new tungsten wire (diameter of 0.125 mm, length of 75 mm) into a micromanipulator and sharpen it in a 10% (w/v) sodium nitrite (NaNO2) solution in a syringe at 10 V provided by a power supply for about 1 min under a stereomicroscope (40X magnification).</li>
		<li>Dip the sharpened tungsten wire repeatedly into the 10% NaNO2 solution, about 4 mm at 5 V in &#60; ...

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Insects rely on palps to detect food odors, and their palps are believed to play an important role in speciation13,27. The palps are simple olfactory organs and are receiving increasing attention as an attractive model for the exploration of the neuromolecular networks underlying chemosensation28.
Insect labellar and palp SSRs have been successfully performed on Drosophila melanogaster, Anopheles ga...

Animals have evolved a range of chemosensory organs that sense exogenous chemical cues. In insects, the most important chemosensory organs are the antennae and the palps. On these organs, several types of chemosensory hairs, called chemosensory sensilla, are innervated by chemosensory neurons (CSNs) within the hairs. CSNs in chemosensory sensilla recognize specific chemical cues through signal transduction from chemical stimuli to electrical potentials that are subsequently transferred up to the central nervous systems1,2,3.
CSNs express various chemosensory receptors [e.g., odorant receptors (ORs)], ionotropic receptors (IRs), and gustatory receptors (GRs) on their membranes, which encode exogenous chemical cues associated with different types of chemosensation4,5,6. The characterization of CSNs is key to the elucidation of cellular and molecular mechanisms of insect chemoreception. Now single sensillum recording (SSR) is a widely-used technique for the characterization of insect CSNs in the antennal sensilla of many insects, including flies7, moths8, beetles9, aphids10, locusts11, and ants12. However, few studies have applied an SSR to insect palps13,14,15,16,17, because the particular structures of their sensilla make an electrophysiological recording difficult18.
Swarms of locusts (Orthoptera) often cause serious crop damage and economic loss19. The palps are believed to play an important role in the food selection of locusts20,21,22,23,24. Two types of chemosensory sensilla are investigated by a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Usually, 350 sensilla chaetica and 7 - 8 sensilla basiconica are observed on each dome of the locust palps18. Sensilla chaetica are gustatory sensilla that sense non-volatile chemical cues, whereas sensilla basiconica have an olfactory function, sensing volatile chemical cues.
On locust palps, the diameters of the hair sockets of the sensilla basiconica (ca. 12 &#181;m), are much greater than those of sensilla chaetica (ca. 8 &#181;m)18,25. The cuticular wall of the sensilla basiconica on the palps is much thicker than that of antennal sensilla18. In addition, the dome of the palp has fluid contents within a highly flexible cuticle. These characteristics mean that a penetration with a microelectrode and an acquisition of good electrophysiological signals is more difficult than for antennal sensilla. In this paper, a detailed and highly effective SSR protocol for locust palp sensilla basiconica is presented with a video.

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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;width:303px;">Tungsten wire</td>
			<td style="width:140px;">ADVENT</td>
			<td style="width:217px;">W559504</td>
			<td style="width:485px;">Used for making the electrode and fixing the palp</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">NaNO2</td>
			<td>Sigma-aldrich</td>
			<td>563218-25G</td>
			<td>Used for sharpening the tungsten wire</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">AC Power Supply</td>
			<td>Syntech</td>
			<td>A2-70</td>
			<td>Providing the voltage in sharpening the tungsten wire</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Stereoscope</td>
			<td>Motic</td>
			<td>SMZ-163</td>
			<td>Used for observing the sharpening of tungsten wire</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Microscope</td>
			<td>Olympus</td>
			<td>W-51</td>
			<td>Used for observing the sensilla on locust maxillary palp</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Intelligent Data Acquisition Controller</td>
			<td>Syntech</td>
			<td>IDAC-4</td>
			<td>Real-time on screen display of all signals before and during recording</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Stimulus controller</td>
			<td>Syntech</td>
			<td>CS-55</td>
			<td>Used for controlling the stimulus application</td>
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			<td>C.M.D.T</td>
			<td>CFT-8301D</td>
			<td>Used for minor movement of the recording electrode</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Micromanipulator</td>
			<td>Narishige</td>
			<td>MN-151</td>
			<td>Used for minor movement of the reference electrode</td>
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			<td>EDIFIER</td>
			<td>R101T06</td>
			<td>Connected with IDAC-4 and providing sound for the signal</td>
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			<td>PDOK</td>
			<td>PD-101</td>
			<td>Used to hold the electrode, and stimulus delivery tube</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Vibration Isolation Table</td>
			<td>TianHe</td>
			<td>HAP-100-1208</td>
			<td>Used for isolating the vibration from the equipment</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Glass slide</td>
			<td>CITOGLAS</td>
			<td>ZBP-407</td>
			<td>Used for making the base for the MPH</td>
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			<td height="40" style="height:40px;">Blu-tack</td>
			<td>Bostik</td>
			<td>Blu-tack-45g</td>
			<td>Fixing the tungsten wire</td>
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			<td height="32" style="height:32px;">Pasteur tube</td>
			<td>YARE</td>
			<td>WITEG</td>
			<td>Placing the filter paper containing stimuli solutions</td>
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single sensillum recordings for locust palp sensilla basiconica

The palps of locust mouthparts are considered to be conventional gustatory organs that play an important role in a locust&#39;s food selection, especially for the detection of non-volatile chemical cues through sensilla chaetica (previously named terminal sensilla or crested sensilla). There is now increasing evidence that these palps also have an olfactory function. An odorant receptor (LmigOR2) and an odorant-binding protein (LmigOBP1) have been localized in the neurons and accessory cells, respectively, in the sensilla basiconica of the palps. Single sensillum recording (SSR) is used for recording the responses of odorant receptor neurons, which is an effective method for screening active ligands on specific odorant receptors. SSR is used in functional studies of odorant receptors in palp sensilla. The structure of the sensilla basiconica located on the dome of the palps differs somewhat from the structure of those on the antennae. Therefore, when performing an SSR elicited by odorants, some specific advice may be helpful for obtaining optimum results. In this paper, a detailed and highly effective protocol for an SSR from insect palp sensilla basiconica is introduced.

Two sensilla subtypes (pb1 and pb2) on the locust maxillary palp are identified based on different response dynamics to chemical odorants (10% 1-nonanol and 10% nonanoic acid). The neurons in pb1 produce significantly more spikes to 1-nonanol than to nonanoic acid while the neurons in pb2 are significantly less activated by 1-nonanol compared with nonanoic acid (Figure 4). Hexanal and E-2-Hexenal can evoke a locust palp opening response (POR)<sup class="xref"...

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Single Sensillum Recordings for Locust Palp Sensilla Basiconica

This paper describes a detailed and highly effective protocol for single sensillum recordings from the sensilla basiconica on the palps of insect mouthparts.

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Localization of Odorant Receptor Genes in Locust Antennae by RNA In Situ Hybridization

Insects have evolved sophisticated olfactory reception systems to sense exogenous chemical signals. These chemical signals are transduced by Olfactory ...

Electrophysiological Recording from Drosophila Trichoid Sensilla in Response to Odorants of Low Volatility

Electrophysiological Recording from Drosophila Trichoid Sensilla in Response to Odorants of Low Volatility

Insects rely on their sense of smell to guide a wide range of behaviors that are critical for their survival, such as food-seeking, predator avoidance, ...