Sentences with phrase «insect olfactory receptors»

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Moreover, each necklace neuron expresses multiple types of MS4A receptors, in stark contrast to the one - receptor - per - neuron rule that organizes insect and other mammalian olfactory systems.

As all three studied insect species emerged at different times in insect evolution, the scientists wanted to track the historical development of olfactory receptors.

Christine Mißbach, first author of the study, analyzed the active genes in the insect antennae where the olfactory receptors are located and describes her discovery this way: «Astonishingly, the firebrat, which is more closely related to flying insects, employs several co-receptors, while the odorant receptors themselves are absent.»

However, the researchers did not find any evidence for an olfactory system which is based on odorant receptors in the most basal insect, the jumping bristletail.

They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.

Next, the researchers tested whether neurons in the insects» olfactory receptors, or sensilla, responded to nonanal.

The discovery of odor - detecting receptors in the fruit fly Drosophila may help scientists better understand how insects and eventually other animals process olfactory information and how odors...