Experience can modify how animals respond to relevant stimuli from their environment, for example, through associative learning. In particular, odour stimuli play a central role in foraging by influencing decision making. ...

Precise sensory measurements of odour (orthonasal) and aroma (retronasal olfactory perception) are time and resource consuming. The aim of this work was to develop improved olfactory tasting procedures. Odour and aroma ...

In olfactometric experiments a wingless adult of Sitobion avenae was attracted by odours of a wingless adult of Rhopalosiphum padi feeding on a wheat plant. When the stimulus consisted of either a wingless R. padi without ...

Individual recognition is expected to enhance fitness by allowing animals to direct appropriate behaviours to specific individuals during interactions with conspecifics. Reduced aggression towards territorial neighbours ...

It has previously been proposed that a Ca2+-dependent K + conductance is implicated in the inhibitory odourant response in rat and toad olfactory receptor neurons. Previous whole-cell and single-channel measurements on ...

Male moths are confronted with complex odour mixtures in a natural environment when flying towards a female-emitted sex pheromone source. Whereas synergistic effects of sex pheromones and plant odours have been observed ...

BACKGROUND: The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a cosmopolitan rodent that has become adapted to living in close association with humans and is considered a serious pest because it poses a risk to human health, and causes ...