Rats track odour trails accurately using a multi-layered strategy with near-optimal sampling

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Khan, Adil Ghani ^a   Sarangi, Manaswini ^a,b   Bhalla, Upinder Singh ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; RAT; SMELLING; SNIFFING; TREADMILL; ANIMAL; FOOD; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SMELL;

EID: 84857699780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1712     Document Type: Article

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