Canine olfaction: physiology, behavior, and possibilities for practical applications

A Kokocińska-Kusiak, M Woszczyło, M Zybala… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Dogs have an extraordinary olfactory capability, which far exceeds that of
humans. Dogs' sense of smell seems to be the main sense, allowing them to not only gather …

[HTML][HTML] Olfaction in the canine cognitive and emotional processes: from behavioral and neural viewpoints to measurement possibilities

P Berg, T Mappes, MV Kujala - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) have excellent olfactory processing capabilities that are
utilized widely in human society eg, working with customs, police, and army; their scent …

[HTML][HTML] Dogs can discriminate between human baseline and psychological stress condition odours

C Wilson, K Campbell, Z Petzel, C Reeve - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Previous research suggests that dogs can detect when humans are experiencing stress.
This study tested whether baseline and stress odours were distinguishable to dogs, using a …

[HTML][HTML] Transitioning from training to testing with scent detection animals: Application to lung cancer detection dogs

MA Crawford, JA Perrone, CM Browne… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Scent-detection animals are routinely evaluated for detection accuracy for a wide range of
targets. The obtained estimates of accuracy vary widely, even with the same species of …

Evaluating scent detection dogs as a tool to detect pathogenic Phytophthora species

ZT Carter, EJ McNaughton, MP Fea… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal genus Phytophthora includes an array of destructive plant pathogens that have
had severe impacts on native, agricultural, and horticultural systems worldwide. Preventing …

Canine olfaction as a disease detection technology: A systematic review

AE Juge, MF Foster, CL Daigle - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Capitalizing on canine olfactory capacity is a promising strategy for detecting and
diagnosing human, animal, and plant diseases. The purpose of this review was to assess …

Generalization across acetone peroxide homemade explosives by detection dogs

L Lazarowski, A Simon, S Krichbaum… - Frontiers in Analytical …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Effective explosives detection requires dogs to generalize their response to untrained
variations of targets that are related to those with which they were trained. Previous research …

Genome scanning of behavioral selection in a canine olfactory detection breeding cohort

AW Eyre, I Zapata, E Hare, KMN Lee, C Bellis… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Research on working dogs is growing rapidly due to increasing global demand. Here we
report genome scanning of the risk of puppies being eliminated for behavioral reasons prior …

Remote medical scent detection of cancer and infectious diseases with dogs and rats: a systematic review

P Bauër, M Leemans, E Audureau… - Integrative Cancer …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Remote medical scent detection of cancer and infectious diseases with dogs
and rats has been an increasing field of research these last 20 years. If validated, the …

[HTML][HTML] How low can they go: A comparison between dog (Canis familiaris) and environmental DNA detection of invasive koi carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus)

MA Collins, CM Browne, TL Edwards, N Ling… - Applied Animal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carp (Cyprinus sp.) are a highly invasive fish that pose a significant threat to freshwater
ecosystems worldwide. At high biomasses (ie,≥ 100 kg/ha), the benthic feeding behaviour …