A model for pheromone discrimination in the insect antennal lobe: Investigation of the role of neuronal response pattern complexity

Chemical Senses

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-27

  Linster, Christiane ^a,b,c   Dreyfus, Gérard ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Electronique   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COCKROACHES; MALE; MOTHS; NERVE NET; PHEROMONES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BLATTARIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0030021169     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/21.1.19     Document Type: Article

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