Functional Characterization of Insect Chemoreceptors: Receptivity Range, Expression and Evolution

• मुख्य लेखक: William B. Walker (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Sharon R. Hill (auth), Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Gene Expression; odorant receptors; Insects; deorphanization; Gustatory Receptors; Olfaction; chemical ecology; gustation; evolution; Chemoreceptors
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Olfaction and taste are of critical importance to insects and other animals, since vital behaviours, including mate, food and host seeking, as well as predator and toxin avoidance, are guided by chemosensory cues. Mate and habitat choice are to a large extent determined by chemical signals, and chem...