Harmful insects include pests of crops and storage goods, and vectors of human and animal diseases. Throughout their history, humans have been fighting them using diverse methods. The fairly recent development of synthetic ...

The sense of smell plays a crucial role in the sensory world of animals. Two chemosensory systems have been traditionally thought to play independent roles in mammalian olfaction. According to this, the main olfactory ...

Acute audiogenic seizures are a model of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, induced by high intensity acoustic stimulation in genetically susceptible rodents, the neural substrates are sensory motor brainstem nuclei. ...

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.Geographic variation of traits may represent the first step for evolutionary divergence potentially leading to speciation. Signals are behavioral traits of particular interest for the study of variation ...