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 …

Detection of chemical signals from the environment through olfaction is an indispensable
mechanism for maintaining an insect's life, evoking critical behavioral responses. Among …

Chemoreception is essential for survival. Feeding, mating, and avoidance of predators
depend on detection of sensory cues. Drosophila contains diverse families of …

Remarkable advances in our understanding of olfactory perception have been made in
recent years, including the discovery of new mechanisms of olfactory signaling and new …

Vertebrates and insects have evolved complex repertoires of chemosensory receptors to
detect and distinguish odours. With a few exceptions, vertebrate chemosensory receptors …

The chemical senses—smell and taste—allow animals to evaluate and distinguish valuable
food resources from dangerous substances in the environment. The central mechanisms by …

Insects, like many other animals, use sex pheromones to coordinate their reproductive
behaviours. Volatile pheromones are detected by odorant receptors expressed in olfactory …

In the olfactory system of Drosophila melanogaster, it is relatively straightforward to target in
vivo measurements of neural activity to specific processing channels. This, together with the …

Odorant binding proteins (Obps) are remarkable in their number, diversity, and abundance,
yet their role in olfactory coding remains unclear. They are widely believed to be required for …

Olfaction is a critical sensory modality that allows living things to acquire chemical
information from the external world. The olfactory system processes two major classes of …