Allelic variation in a fatty-acyl reductase gene causes divergence in moth sex pheromones JM Lassance, AT Groot, MA Liénard, B Antony, C Borgwardt, F Andersson, ... Nature 466 (7305), 486-489, 2010 | 248 | 2010 |
Evolution of multicomponent pheromone signals in small ermine moths involves a single fatty-acyl reductase gene MA Liénard, ÅK Hagström, JM Lassance, C Löfstedt Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (24), 10955-10960, 2010 | 117 | 2010 |
Functional consequences of sequence variation in the pheromone biosynthetic gene pgFAR for Ostrinia moths JM Lassance, MA Liénard, B Antony, S Qian, T Fujii, J Tabata, Y Ishikawa, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (10), 3967-3972, 2013 | 109 | 2013 |
Neofunctionalization in an ancestral insect desaturase lineage led to rare Δ6 pheromone signals in the Chinese tussah silkworm HL Wang*, MA Liénard*, CH Zhao, CZ Wang, C Löfstedt Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 40 (10), 742-751, 2010 | 87 | 2010 |
Key biosynthetic gene subfamily recruited for pheromone production prior to the extensive radiation of Lepidoptera MA Liénard, M Strandh, E Hedenström, T Johansson, C Löfstedt BMC evolutionary biology 8, 1-15, 2008 | 84 | 2008 |
Semi–selective fatty acyl reductases from four heliothine moths influence the specific pheromone composition ÅK Hagström, MA Lienard, AT Groot, E Hedenström, C Löfstedt PLoS One 7 (5), e37230, 2012 | 82 | 2012 |
Sex pheromone evolution is associated with differential regulation of the same desaturase gene in two genera of leafroller moths J Albre, MA Liénard, TM Sirey, S Schmidt, LK Tooman, C Carraher, ... PLoS genetics 8 (1), e1002489, 2012 | 69 | 2012 |
A moth pheromone brewery: production of (Z)-11-hexadecenol by heterologous co-expression of two biosynthetic genes from a noctuid moth in a yeast cell factory ÅK Hagström, HL Wang, MA Liénard, JM Lassance, T Johansson, ... Microbial cell factories 12, 1-11, 2013 | 62 | 2013 |
Elucidation of the sex-pheromone biosynthesis producing 5, 7-dodecadienes in Dendrolimus punctuates (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) reveals Δ11-and Δ9-desaturases with unusual … MA Liénard, JM Lassance, HL Wang, CH Zhao, J Piškur, T Johansson, ... Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 40 (6), 440-452, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
Sex pheromone biosynthetic pathways are conserved between moths and the butterfly Bicyclus anynana MA Liénard, H Wang, JM Lassance, C Löfstedt Nature Communications, 12, 2014 | 45 | 2014 |
The evolution of red color vision is linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuning in lycaenid butterflies MA Liénard, GD Bernard, A Allen, JM Lassance, S Song, RR Childers, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (6), e2008986118, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
Terminal fatty-acyl-CoA desaturase involved in sex pheromone biosynthesis in the winter moth (Operophtera brumata) BJ Ding, MA Liénard, HL Wang, CH Zhao, C Löfstedt Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 41 (9), 715-722, 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
Neighboring genes for DNA-binding proteins rescue male sterility in Drosophila hybrids MA Liénard, LO Araripe, DL Hartl Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (29), E4200-E4207, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
Molecular advances to study the function, evolution, and spectral tuning of arthropod visual opsins MA Liénard, WA Valencia-Montoya, NE Pierce Philosophical Transactions B 377 (20210279), 10.1098/rstb.2021.0279, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
Functional flexibility as a prelude to signal diversity? Role of a fatty acyl reductase in moth pheromone evolution MA Liénard, C Löfstedt Communicative & integrative biology 3 (6), 586-588, 2010 | 21 | 2010 |
Differential expression of cytochrome c oxidase subunit III gene in castes of the termite Reticulitermes santonensis MA Liénard, JMXS Lassance, I Paulmier, JF Picimbon, C Löfstedt Journal of insect physiology 52 (6), 551-557, 2006 | 17 | 2006 |
Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) WA Valencia-Montoya, TB Quental, JFR Tonini, G Talavera, JD Crall, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1950), 20202512, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
Role of Pheromones in Reproductive Isolation and Speciation MA Liénard, Löfstedt Pheromone communication in moths: evolution, behavior and application …, 2016 | 7* | 2016 |
A hypothesis for robust polarization vision: an example from the Australian imperial blue butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras RAR Childers, GD Bernard, H Huang, CC Tsai, MC Stoddard, BG Hogan, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 226 (7), jeb244515, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
TRPA5 encodes a thermosensitive ankyrin ion channel receptor in a triatomine insect MA Liénard*, D Baez-Nieto*, CC Tsai, WA Valencia-Montoya, B Werin, ... iScience 109541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.1095, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |