Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In moths, mate finding relies on female-emitted sex pheromones that the males have to decipher within a complex environmental odorant background. Previous studies have shown that interactions of both sex pheromones and plant volatiles can occur in the ...
Paul Vandroux +6 more
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Insect Odorant Receptors: Channeling Scent [PDF]
Cell, 2008 Odorant detection in insects involves heterodimers between an odorant receptor (OR) and a conserved seven-transmembrane protein called Or83b, but the exact mechanism of OR signal transduction is unclear. Two recent studies in Nature (Sato et al., 2008; Wicher et al., 2008) now reveal that these OR-Or83b heterodimers form odorant-gated ion channels ...
Ha, Tal Soo, Smith, Dean P.
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Sequence comparisons of odorant receptors among tortricid moths reveal different rates of molecular evolution among family members. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 In insects, odorant receptors detect volatile cues involved in behaviours such as mate recognition, food location and oviposition. We have investigated the evolution of three odorant receptors from five species within the moth genera Ctenopseustis and ...
Colm Carraher +3 more
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The narrowing olfactory landscape of insect odorant receptors
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 The molecular basis of odorant detection and its corollary, the task of the odorant receptor, are fundamental to understanding olfactory coding and sensory ecology.
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Stimulation of electro-olfactogram responses in the main olfactory epithelia by airflow depends on the type 3 adenylyl cyclase [PDF]
, 2012 Cilia of olfactory sensory neurons are the primary sensory organelles for olfaction. The detection of odorants by the main olfactory epithelium (MOE) depends on coupling of odorant receptors to the type 3 adenylyl cyclase (AC3) in olfactory cilia.
Chen, Xuanmao +2 more
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Identification of odorant-receptor interactions by global mapping of the human odorome.
PLoS ONE, 2014 The human olfactory system recognizes a broad spectrum of odorants using approximately 400 different olfactory receptors (hORs). Although significant improvements of heterologous expression systems used to study interactions between ORs and odorant ...
Karine Audouze +7 more
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Characterization of an enantioselective odorant receptor in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Enantiomers differ only in the left or right handedness (chirality) of their orientations and exhibit identical chemical and physical properties. In chemical communication systems, enantiomers can be differentially active at the physiological and ...
Jonathan D Bohbot, Joseph C Dickens
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Requirement for Slit-1 and Robo-2 in zonal segregation of olfactory sensory neuron axons in the main olfactory bulb [PDF]
, 2007 The formation of precise stereotypic connections in sensory systems is critical for the ability to detect and process signals from the environment. In the olfactory system, olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) project axons to spatially defined glomeruli ...
Andrews, W +4 more
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Expanding the olfactory code by in silico decoding of odor-receptor chemical space
eLife, 2013 Coding of information in the peripheral olfactory system depends on two fundamental factors: interaction of individual odors with subsets of the odorant receptor repertoire and mode of signaling that an individual receptor-odor interaction elicits ...
Sean Michael Boyle +2 more
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Olfactory receptor antagonism between odorants [PDF]
The EMBO Journal, 2003 The detection of thousands of volatile odorants is mediated by several hundreds of different G protein-coupled olfactory receptors (ORs). The main strategy in encoding odorant identities is a combinatorial receptor code scheme in that different odorants are recognized by different sets of ORs.
Oka, Yuki +3 more
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