Neurons in mosquito antennae can express more than one olfactory receptor at a time, a redundancy that likely ensures they don’t lose a potential host’s scent. The temporary loss of olfaction stops ...

Introduction / Bill S. Hansson -- Morphology and development of the peripheral olfactory organs / Thomas A. Keil -- Perireceptor events and transduction mechanisms in insect olfaction / Monika Stengl, ...

Dennis Mathew is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and studies insect olfaction at the cellular and molecular levels. He is also a co-director of ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have studied a core element of the insect olfactory system to see how this knowledge might help in both fighting insects and using them to our advantage. The ...

Researchers describe, for the first time, the structure of a smell-receptor protein common among insects. Its inner architecture illuminates how insects evolved to detect an amazing diversity of odors ...

Whether it’s the wafting aroma of our favorite meal or the dangerous fumes seeping from a toxic chemical, the human sense of smell has evolved into a sophisticated system that processes scents through ...

Our sensory systems provide us with immediate information about the world around us. Now researchers have created a sensory map for smell. The map details how the fruit fly's olfactory receptor ...

Among the sensory modalities, olfaction is most closely associated with the frontal and temporal brain regions that are implicated in schizophrenia and most intimately related to the affective and ...