Manduca sexta
February 8th, 2025
Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the Americas. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum.
Commonly known as the Carolina sphinx moth and the tobacco hawk moth (as adults) and the tobacco hornworm and the Goliath worm (as larvae), it is closely related to and often confused with the very similar tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata); the larvae of both feed on the foliage of various plants of the family Solanaceae.
Source: Wikipedia
Statistics of OBPs from Manduca sexta
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Credits
List compiled1 and orthology analysis performed by Mikhael DJOUMESSI, undergraduate student at Nantes University.
References
- Vogt, R.G., Große-Wilde, E. and Zhou, J.J., 2015. The Lepidoptera odorant binding protein gene family: gene gain and loss within the GOBP/PBP complex of moths and butterflies. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 62, pp.142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.03.003 ↩︎