Transformation of the sex pheromone signal in the noctuid moth Agrotis ipsilon: From peripheral input to antennal lobe output

Chemical Senses

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 705-715

  Jarriault, David ^a   Gadenne, Christophe ^a   Lucas, Philippe ^a   Rospars, Jean Pierre ^a   Anton, Sylvia ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Intracellular recording; Macroglomerular complex; MGC neuron; Olfactory coding; Olfactory receptor neuron; Single sensillum recording

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

AGROTIS IPSILON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOMERULUS; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; MACROGLOMERULAR COMPLEX; MALE; MOTH; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; MALE; MOTHS; NEURONS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGROTIS IPSILON; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 77957256127     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq069     Document Type: Article

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