Fluid turbulence is a double-edged sword for the navigation of macroscopic animals, such
as birds, insects, and rodents. On the one hand, turbulence enables pheromone …

Neuroethology utilizes a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches to decipher neural
correlates of natural behaviors associated with an animal's ecological niche. By placing …

A globally invasive form of the mosquito Aedes aegypti specializes in biting humans, making
it an efficient disease vector. Host-seeking female mosquitoes strongly prefer human odour …

The stimulus complexity of naturally occurring odours presents unique challenges for central
nervous systems that are aiming to internalize the external olfactory landscape. One …

Response reliability is complementary to more conventional measurements of response
amplitudes, and can reveal phenomena that response amplitudes do not. Here we review …

Olfactory perception is initiated by the recognition of odorants by a large repertoire of
receptors in the sensory epithelium. A dispersed pattern of neural activity in the nose is …

Natural odors, generally composed of many monomolecular components, are analyzed by
peripheral receptors into component features and translated into spatiotemporal patterns of …

Summary Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) is a light-gated, cation-selective ion channel isolated
from the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Here, we report the generation of …

Pheromones have been found in species in almost every part of the animal kingdom,
including mammals. Pheromones (a molecule or defined combination of molecules) are …

Fruitflies show robust attraction to food odours, which usually excite several glomeruli. To
understand how the representation of such odours leads to behaviour, we used genetic …