Dr Bill Dew said: «Our research shows that copper affects the function of a specific type of olfactory neurons in fish, preventing them from detecting important olfactory signals used to detect fish injured by predation.» (sciencedaily.com)
Albeanu and colleagues, including Arkarup Banerjee and Fred Marbach, graduate students in the Watson School for Biological Sciences at CSHL and co-first authors of the Neuron paper, conducted experiments in living animals that revealed a mechanism for adjusting olfactory signal gain. (sciencedaily.com)
And it's hard to overlook the many swear words that are related to orifices or activities that also emit pheromonic olfactory signals. (discovermagazine.com)