Olfaction is an essential sensory modality for insects and their olfactory environment is
mostly made up of plant-emitted volatiles. The terrestrial vegetation produces an amazing …

Volatile plant secondary metabolites are detected by the highly sensitive olfactory system
employed by insects to locate suitable plants as hosts and to avoid unsuitable hosts …

Animals have evolved to rapidly detect and recognize brief and intermittent encounters with
odor packages, exhibiting recognition capabilities within milliseconds. Artificial olfaction has …

Searching for food, friends, and mates often begins with an airborne scent. Importantly, odor
concentration rises with physical proximity to an odorous source, suggesting a framework for …

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 …

We have undertaken a functional analysis of the odorant receptor repertoire in the
Drosophila antenna. Each receptor was expressed in a mutant olfactory receptor neuron …

Insects locate many resources important to survival by tracking along wind-borne odor
plumes to their source. It is well known that plumes are patchy distributions of high …

Insect olfactory systems present models to study interactions between animal genomes and
the environment. They have evolved for fast processing of specific odorant blends and for …

Pollinators use their sense of smell to locate flowers from long distances, but little is known
about how they are able to discriminate their target odor from a mélange of other natural and …

In both insect and vertebrate olfactory systems only two synapses separate the sensory
periphery from brain areas required for memory formation and the organisation of behaviour …