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 striking commonality across insects and vertebrates is the recurring presence of parallel
olfactory subsystems, suggesting that such an organization has a highly adaptive value …

Locust plagues threaten agricultural and environmental safety throughout the world,.
Aggregation pheromones have a crucial role in the transition of locusts from a solitary form …

Despite the importance of the insect nervous system for functional and developmental
neuroscience, descriptions of insect brains have suffered from a lack of uniform …

Great progress has been made in the field of insect olfaction in recent years. Receptors,
neurons, and circuits have been defined in considerable detail, and the mechanisms by …

The simplicity and accessibility of the olfactory systems of insects underlie a body of
research essential to understanding not only olfactory function but also general principles of …

In most insects with olfactory glomeruli, each side of the brain possesses a mushroom body
equipped with calyces supplied by olfactory projection neurons. Kenyon cells providing …

Animals rely on their chemosensory system to discriminate among a very large number of
attractive or repulsive chemical cues in the environment, which is essential to respond with …

The olfactory lobes of crustaceans and the antennal lobes of insects are the primary
olfactory brain centers in Tetraconata. Recent publications considered the apparent lack of …

Mosquito behavior is heavily dependent on olfactory and mechanosensory cues, which are
detected by receptor neurons on the antenna and on the palps. Recent progress in mosquito …