The sense of smell enables insects to recognize and discriminate a broad range of volatile
chemicals in their environment originating from prey, host plants and conspecifics. These …

Highlights•Olfactory signal transduction occurs in sensillar odorant receptor
neurons.•Distinct chemical space is covered by specific chemoreceptor families.•Olfactory …

The sense of smell enables insects to recognize olfactory signals crucial for survival and
reproduction. In insects, odorant detection highly depends on the interplay of distinct …

Insects thrive in diverse ecological niches in large part because of their highly sophisticated
olfactory systems. Over the last two decades, a major focus in the study of insect olfaction …

Manduca sexta, known as the tobacco hornworm or Carolina sphinx moth, is a lepidopteran
insect that is used extensively as a model system for research in insect biochemistry …

Great progress has been made in the field of insect olfaction in recent years. Receptors,
neurons, and circuits have been defined in considerable detail, and the mechanisms by …

Abstract Background The European spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus, and the North
American mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae …

Cholesterol is required for maintenance of plasma membrane fluidity and integrity and for
many cellular functions. Cellular cholesterol can be obtained from lipoproteins in a selective …

Antennal olfaction is extremely important for insect survival, mediating key behaviors such
as host preference, mate choice, and oviposition site selection. Multiple antennal proteins …

The evolution of winged insects revolutionized terrestrial ecosystems and led to the largest
animal radiation on Earth. However, we still have an incomplete picture of the genomic …