An olfactory system is one of the complicatedly-equipped sensory facilities in the insect sensory systems, which is most essential for insect olfactory-driven behaviors relevant to survival such as finding hosts, mates, oviposition sites, and food resources. These behaviors are mostly controlled by circadian rhythm. The american cockroach, Periplaneta americana, has been an ideal model to extensively study olfactory system associated with complex behavioral repertoires and circadian controls of certain behaviors, respectively. Even though it is known that olfactory-related physiology in peripheral and central olfactory systems seems to be highly variable by circadian rhythms, little is known about how these are controlled at the neuronal and molecular levels. It has been reported that the plasticity in the olfactory system is modulated by a set of neuropeptides. However, it remains still elusive how these neuropeptides and neuroendocrine system interact in the peripheral systems to change olfactory responses in cockroaches. Here, current study focuses on the localization of neuropeptides and their receptors by using in situ hybridization and immunostaining methods. Also, expression level of these genes are evaulated by qRT-PCR methods. Circadian fluctuation of these genes seem to be important neurotransmission machineries in the periphery. Our current study suggests that microcircuits of neuronal systems in the peripheral olfactory organ play an important in olfactory modulation by circadian rhythm

• June-Sun Yoon(WCU Biomodulation major, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
• Ki-Bae Hong(WCU Biomodulation major, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
• Hyung-Wook Kwon(WCU Biomodulation major, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Seoul National University)