Dummies versus air puffs: Efficient stimulus delivery for low-volatile odors

Chemical Senses

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 323-333

  Brandstaetter, Andreas Simon ^a   Rössler, Wolfgang ^a   Kleineidam, Christoph Johannes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ants; Calcium imaging; Camponotus floridanus; Electroantennography; Neurophysiology; Odor stimulation

Indexed keywords

9 TRICOSENE; ALKENE; NEROLIC ACID; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNDECANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AIR; ALKANES; ANIMALS; ANTS; CALCIUM; MANIKINS; NEURONS; ODORS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; VOLATILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CAMPONOTUS ATRICEPS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 77952136548     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq022     Document Type: Article

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