Insects groom their antennae to enhance olfactory acuity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3615-3620

  Böröczky, Katalin ^a   Wada Katsumata, Ayako ^a   Batchelor, Dale ^b   Zhukovskaya, Marianna ^c   Schal, Coby ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; GERANYL ACETATE; HEXANOL; HYDROCARBON; SEX PHEROMONE; STEARIC ACID;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GROOMING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GROOMING; HYDROCARBONS; INSECTS; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; MALE; SENSILLA; SMELL;

EID: 84874474186     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212466110     Document Type: Article

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