| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,990,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥7,410,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,710,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Responding appropriately to environmental information is essential for the survival and prosperity of animals. Sex pheromone-processing neural pathways of insects is a great model to investigate the relationship between input (sensory information) and corresponding output (sexual behavior). In the present study, I aimed to establish methods to manipulate the activity of neural circuits in an activity-dependent manner using vinegar flies and silkmoths, to elucidate neural pathways of sex pheromone information. I succeeded in labeling and re-activating neural circuits that had been activated by sexual behavior in vinegar flies. In silkmoths, I established strains that can express highly sensitive channel rhodopsin, enabling manipulation of moth behavior by optogenetics.
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