The majority of insect olfactory receptors belong to two distinct protein families, the
ionotropic receptors (IRs), which are related to the ionotropic glutamate receptor family, and …

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

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 …

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 …

Olfaction in Drosophila is mediated by a large family of membrane-bound odorant receptor
proteins (Ors). In heterologous cells, we investigated whether the structural features and …

Recognition of environmental cues is essential for the survival of all organisms.
Transcriptional changes occur to enable the generation and function of the neural circuits …

Olfactory-driven behaviors are central to the lifecycle of the malaria vector mosquito
Anopheles gambiae and are initiated by peripheral signaling in the antenna and other …

Insects sense odorants with specialized odorant receptors (ORs). Each antennal olfactory
receptor neuron expresses one OR with an odorant binding site together with a conserved …

Olfactory receptors (Ors) convert chemical signals—the binding of odors and pheromones—
to electrical signals through the depolarization of olfactory sensory neurons. Vertebrates Ors …

The way in which organisms detect specific volatile compounds within their environment,
and the associated neural processing which produces perception and subsequent …