Dose-dependent nonassociative olfactory learning in a fly

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 535-541

  Barbarossa, Iole Tomassini ^a   Muroni, Patrizia ^a   Setzu, Maria D ^a   Angioy, Anna Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Habituation; Heart response; Insect; Odor information

Indexed keywords

HEXANOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; HABITUATION; HEART CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DIPTERA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEART RATE; HEXANOLS; REACTION TIME; SMELL; TIME FACTORS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 34547871596     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm022     Document Type: Article

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