… The study of olfactory behavior in insects partly fills this role for evolutionary neurobiology. …
of circuit evolution without first having to do decades worth of careful background study. …

… of comparative investigations in this field. In order to illustrate neuronal mechanisms, we will
provide here an integrative view of olfactory plasticity in a behavioral and ecological context …

… the major players of sensory integration in the central nervous system of insects, the three
… large array of olfactory, visual, and mechanosensory cues to relay context-dependent motor …

… these context-dependent changes within sensory systems … complex and varied when
comparing across systems (Table 1). … a tradeoff between olfaction and vision in insects. The …

… the neurobiological mechanisms that give rise to olfactory percepts. … the neural pathways of
olfactory kin imprinting and kin … networks and olfactory centers in a comparative context. The …

… of peripheral olfactory systems are uncommon. Despite the lack of robust comparative …
distances display more highly developed peripheral olfactory systems than species that live very …

… models in comparative and functional neurobiology. We … Indeed, expression of gustatory
and olfactory receptors can be … and locomotor control in the context of processed internal …

… sensory systems vary and often unveils unexpected mechanisms for sensing stimuli (Figure
2). Investigating sensory changes in a comparative context can … in specific olfactory sensory …

… have considered odour aerodynamics in the context of entire olfactory organs [26], which …
investigating insect olfactory transduction is of widespread interest in sensory neuroscience …

… levels to of the olfactory system. These changes are discussed in the context of the advantages
… By comparing related species and relatively short evolutionary time-scales it has been …