Increased behavioral and neuronal sensitivity to sex pheromone after brief odor experience in a moth

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 483-491

  Anderson, Peter ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a   Nilsson, Ulf ^a   Han, Qian ^a,c   Sjöholm, Marcus ^a   Skals, Niels ^a,d   Anton, Sylvia ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antennal lobe; Behavioral modulation; Experience; Neural modulation; Olfactory interneurons

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EXPOSURE; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTH; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MALE; NEURONS; ODORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SMELL; SPODOPTERA;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 34447581058     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm017     Document Type: Article

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