Recent advances in neuropeptide signaling in Drosophila, from genes to physiology and behavior

DR Nässel, M Zandawala - Progress in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
This review focuses on neuropeptides and peptide hormones, the largest and most diverse
class of neuroactive substances, known in Drosophila and other animals to play roles in …

Access to the odor world: olfactory receptors and their role for signal transduction in insects

J Fleischer, P Pregitzer, H Breer, J Krieger - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Non-canonical odor coding in the mosquito

M Herre, OV Goldman, TC Lu, G Caballero-Vidal, Y Qi… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are a persistent human foe, transmitting arboviruses including
dengue when they feed on human blood. Mosquitoes are intensely attracted to body odor …

A rise-to-threshold process for a relative-value decision

V Vijayan, F Wang, K Wang, A Chakravorty, A Adachi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Whereas progress has been made in the identification of neural signals related to rapid,
cued decisions,–, less is known about how brains guide and terminate more ethologically …

Information flow, cell types and stereotypy in a full olfactory connectome

P Schlegel, AS Bates, T Stürner, SR Jagannathan… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The hemibrain connectome provides large-scale connectivity and morphology information
for the majority of the central brain of Drosophila melanogaster. Using this data set, we …

A model species for agricultural pest genomics: the genome of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

SD Schoville, YH Chen, MN Andersson, JB Benoit… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The Colorado potato beetle is one of the most challenging agricultural pests to manage. It
has shown a spectacular ability to adapt to a variety of solanaceaeous plants and variable …

[HTML][HTML] Aedes aegypti mosquitoes detect acidic volatiles found in human odor using the IR8a pathway

JI Raji, N Melo, JS Castillo, S Gonzalez, V Saldana… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Mosquitoes use olfaction as a primary means of detecting their hosts. Previously, the
functional ablation of a family of Aedes aegypti olfactory receptors, the odorant receptors …

Gustatory Processing in Drosophila melanogaster

K Scott - Annual review of entomology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The ability to identify nutrient-rich food and avoid toxic substances is essential for an
animal's survival. Although olfaction and vision contribute to food detection, the gustatory …

Molecular mechanisms of olfactory detection in insects: beyond receptors

HR Schmidt, R Benton - Open Biology, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Drosophila sensory receptors—a set of molecular Swiss Army Knives

C Montell - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Genetic approaches in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, have led to a major triumph in
the field of sensory biology—the discovery of multiple large families of sensory receptors …