Access to the odor world: olfactory receptors and their role for signal transduction in insects

J Fleischer, P Pregitzer, H Breer, J Krieger - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2018‏ - Springer
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 …

Peripheral coding of taste

ER Liman, YV Zhang, C Montell - Neuron, 2014‏ - cell.com
Five canonical tastes, bitter, sweet, umami (amino acid), salty, and sour (acid), are detected
by animals as diverse as fruit flies and humans, consistent with a near-universal drive to …

Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences

AD Vaudo, HM Patch, DA Mortensen, JF Tooker… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
To fuel their activities and rear their offspring, foraging bees must obtain a sufficient quality
and quantity of nutritional resources from a diverse plant community. Pollen is the primary …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic nomenclature for the insect brain

K Ito, K Shinomiya, M Ito, JD Armstrong, G Boyan… - Neuron, 2014‏ - cell.com
Despite the importance of the insect nervous system for functional and developmental
neuroscience, descriptions of insect brains have suffered from a lack of uniform …

Molecular evolution of the major arthropod chemoreceptor gene families

HM Robertson - Annual review of entomology, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
The evolutionary origins of the three major families of chemoreceptors in arthropods—the
odorant receptor (OR), gustatory receptor (GR), and ionotropic receptor (IR) families …

Honey bee toxicology

RM Johnson - Annual review of entomology, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Insecticides are chemicals used to kill insects, so it is unsurprising that many insecticides
have the potential to harm honey bees (Apis mellifera). However, bees are exposed to a …

[HTML][HTML] A fructose receptor functions as a nutrient sensor in the Drosophila brain

T Miyamoto, J Slone, X Song, H Amrein - Cell, 2012‏ - cell.com
Internal nutrient sensors play important roles in feeding behavior, yet their molecular
structure and mechanism of action are poorly understood. Using Ca 2+ imaging and …

Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome

N Terrapon, C Li, HM Robertson, L Ji, X Meng… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Although eusociality evolved independently within several orders of insects, research into
the molecular underpinnings of the transition towards social complexity has been confined …

Odorant receptors and odorant-binding proteins as insect pest control targets: a comparative analysis

H Venthur, JJ Zhou - Frontiers in physiology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Recently, two alternative targets in insect periphery nerve system have been explored for
environmentally-friendly approaches in insect pest management, namely odorant-binding …

Complementary function and integrated wiring of the evolutionarily distinct Drosophila olfactory subsystems

AF Silbering, R Rytz, Y Grosjean, L Abuin… - Journal of …, 2011‏ - jneurosci.org
To sense myriad environmental odors, animals have evolved multiple, large families of
divergent olfactory receptors. How and why distinct receptor repertoires and their associated …