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Nature Communications, 2017 The range of odours that an insect can detect depends on its olfactory receptors. Here, the authors functionally characterize the olfactory receptor repertoire of the mothSpodoptera littoralis using the Drosophilaempty neuron system and reconstruct the ...
Arthur de Fouchier +13 more
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Chemosensory Exploitation and Predator-Prey Arms Races
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Thousands of armed predatory species, distributed widely across the metazoan tree-of-life, consume only hard-shell or exoskeleton-bearing organisms (called “durophagy”).
Richard K. Zimmer +4 more
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Opsin expression predicts male nuptial color in threespine stickleback. [PDF]
, 2018 Theoretical models of sexual selection suggest that male courtship signals can evolve through the build-up of genetic correlations between the male signal and female preference.
Bolnick, Daniel I +3 more
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Animals, 2022 The influence of environmental factors on prey discrimination of bait-attracted white sharks was studied over a six-year period (2008–2013) at Dyer Island Nature Reserve (Gansbaai, South Africa).
Francesca Romana Reinero +5 more
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The Mormyrid Optic Tectum Is a Topographic Interface for Active Electrolocation and Visual Sensing
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2018 The African weakly electric fish Gnathonemus petersii is capable of cross-modal object recognition using its electric sense or vision. Thus, object features stored in the brain are accessible by multiple senses, either through connections between ...
Malou Zeymer +2 more
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Functional differences in echolocation call design in an adaptive radiation of bats
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 All organisms have specialized systems to sense their environment. Most bat species use echolocation for navigation and foraging, but which and how ecological factors shaped echolocation call diversity remains unclear for the most diverse clades ...
Leith B. Leiser‐Miller +1 more
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Influence of blood meal on the responsiveness of olfactory receptor neurons in antennal sensilla trichodea of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti [PDF]
, 2010 In female Aedes aegypti L. mosquitoes, a blood meal induces physiological and behavioral changes. Previous studies have shown that olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) housed in grooved peg sensilla on the antennae of Ae.
Hansson, Bill +3 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2015 Pollination of plants by non-flying mammals, such as mice (Rodentia), is a rarely observed phenomenon. Previously, elephant-shrews (Macroscelidea), small African mammals looking similar to mice, but not being related to them, were believed to be purely ...
Petra Wester
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Sensory Ecology of Ostariophysan Alarm Substances
Journal of Fish Biology, 2018 Chemical communication of predation risk has evolved multiple times in fish species, with the conspecific alarm substance (CAS) contemporaneously being the most well understood mechanism. CAS is released after epithelial damage, usually when prey fish is captured by a predator, and elicits neurobehavioral adjustments in conspecifics which increase the ...
Caio Maximino +15 more
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Female mating preferences in blind cave tetras Astyanax fasciatus (Characidae, Teleostei). [PDF]
, 2006 The Mexican tetra Astyanax fasciatus has evolved a variety of more or less color- and eyeless cave populations. Here we examined the evolution of the female preference for large male body size within different populations of this species, either surface-
Plath, Martin +4 more
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