The olfactory system must recognize and discriminate amongst an enormous variety of
chemicals in the environment. To contend with such diversity, insects have evolved a family …

Olfactory systems must detect and discriminate amongst an enormous variety of odorants.
To contend with this challenge, diverse species have converged on a common strategy in …

In insects, each olfactory sensory neuron expresses between one and three ligand-binding
members of the olfactory receptor (OR) gene family, along with the highly conserved and …

Insect odorant receptors (ORs) comprise an enormous protein family that translates
environmental chemical signals into neuronal electrical activity. These heptahelical …

Female mosquitoes of some species are generalists and will blood-feed on a variety of
vertebrate hosts, whereas others display marked host preference. Anopheles gambiae and …

Blood-feeding insects such as mosquitoes are efficient vectors of human infectious diseases
because they are strongly attracted by body heat, carbon dioxide and odours produced by …

We propose a revised nomenclature for the insect olfactory coreceptor variously named
''Or83b,''''Or1,''''Or2,''and ''Or7.''This gene appears to be functionally orthologous across all …

Insects have co-opted a unique family of seven transmembrane proteins for odour sensing.
Odorant receptors are believed to have evolved from gustatory receptors somewhere at the …

Carbon dioxide is produced by many organic processes and is a convenient volatile cue for
insects that are searching for blood hosts, flowers, communal nests, fruit and wildfires …

In insects, odor cues are discriminated through a divergent family of odorant receptors
(ORs). A functional OR complex consists of both a conventional odorant-binding OR and a …