Not exact matches
The phenomenon has something to
do with the
olfactory bulb in the brain's limbic
system and how it forever links the scent of soap and freshly - cut lavender to the security of your grandmother's guest room.
Somehow, the mouse
olfactory system had to evolve a way to adjust, to encode incoming sensory information so that it doesn't saturate the firing range of
olfactory neurons.»
They suspect that the way the
olfactory system is organized has little to
do with how an organic chemist might organize molecules (for instance, by the number of carbon atoms on each molecule); instead, it more closely resembles the complex way that chemicals are associated in the real world.
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.
With each dog, Rosell turns his nose to the evolution of the unique
olfactory systems involved, which odours dogs detect, and how they
do it.
It doesn't have a smell for humans but I see no reason why an animal couldn't have an
olfactory system tuned to smell it.