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The Wire Is Not the Territory: Understanding Representational Drift in Olfaction With Dynamical Systems Theory

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Representational drift is a phenomenon of increasing interest in the cognitive and neural sciences. While investigations are ongoing for other sensory cortices, recent research has demonstrated the pervasiveness in which it occurs in the piriform cortex for olfaction.
Ann‐Sophie Barwich   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Features of an OR37 Glomerulus: A Comparative Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2017
In the olfactory bulb (OB) a sophisticated neuronal network mediates the primary processing of sensory information and extensive investigations over the past decades have greatly improved our understanding of the morphology and neuronal organization of ...
Anna-Maria Maier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Activation of pheromone-sensitive olfactory neurons by plant volatiles in the moth Agrotis ipsilon does not occur at the level of the pheromone receptor protein

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Oscillatory Sequences of Firing in the Locust Olfactory System: Mechanisms and Functional Significance [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
What neural codes does the brain use to represent and process sensory information? Stimulus-evoked oscillatory synchronization of neuronal activity has been observed in many systems, yet the possible functions of such rhythmic synchronization in neural ...
Wehr, Michael Stephen
core   +1 more source

Silencing of Odorant Receptor Genes by G Protein βγ Signaling Ensures the Expression of One Odorant Receptor per Olfactory Sensory Neuron [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
SummaryOlfactory sensory neurons express just one out of a possible ∼1,000 odorant receptor genes, reflecting an exquisite mode of gene regulation. In one model, once an odorant receptor is chosen for expression, other receptor genes are suppressed by a ...
Risso, Davide   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Tuning Insect Odorant Receptors [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2018
Among the insect olfactory receptors the odorant receptors (ORs) evolved in parallel to the onset of insect flight. A special property of this receptor type is the capability to adjust sensitivity of odor detection according to previous odor contacts.
openaire   +4 more sources

Sequence comparisons of odorant receptors among tortricid moths reveal different rates of molecular evolution among family members. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

The narrowing olfactory landscape of insect odorant receptors

open access: yesFrontiers 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.
Jonathan Daniel Bohbot   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of odorant-receptor interactions by global mapping of the human odorome.

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization of an enantioselective odorant receptor in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

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