Mezcal worm in a bottle: DNA evidence suggests a single moth species.
Agave redworm moth
Comadia redtenbacheri
Cossidae
Food science
Goat moth
Gusano del maguey
Identification
Liquor
Tequila
Journal
PeerJ
ISSN: 2167-8359
Titre abrégé: PeerJ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101603425
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
19
10
2022
accepted:
02
02
2023
entrez:
14
3
2023
pubmed:
15
3
2023
medline:
16
3
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Mezcals are distilled Mexican alcoholic beverages consumed by many people across the globe. One of the most popular mezcals is tequila, but there are other forms of mezcal whose production has been part of Mexican culture since the 17th century. It was not until the 1940-50s when the mezcal worm, also known as the "tequila worm", was placed inside bottles of non-tequila mezcal before distribution. These bottled larvae increased public attention for mezcal, especially in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Despite these larvae gaining global interest, their identity has largely remained uncertain other than that they are larvae of one of three distantly related holometabolous insects. We sequenced the COI gene from larvae in different kinds of commercially available mezcals. All larval DNA that amplified was identified as the agave redworm moth,
Identifiants
pubmed: 36915657
doi: 10.7717/peerj.14948
pii: 14948
pmc: PMC10007961
doi:
Substances chimiques
DNA
9007-49-2
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e14948Informations de copyright
©2023 Kawahara et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare there are no competing interests.
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