This valuable study shows that an odorant that is typically thought of as a repellant actually activates both attractant and repellant olfactory neurons in C. elegans. Solid evidence is provided that ...

Olfactory activity is known to induce dramatic changes in the abundance of different sensory neuron subtypes (i.e., neurons that express different olfactory receptor proteins) in an individual’s ...

a study by Bargmann and colleagues shows that in Caenorhabditis elegans a single sensory neuron can drive both types of behaviour in response to the same stimulus. Two pairs of olfactory neurons ...

"Dopaminergic neurons dynamically update sensory values during olfactory maneuver ... "Decoding of context-dependent olfactory behavior in Drosophila." Neuron 91, 155-167 (2016). 10.Kazama, H.: ...

“Natural environments require humans and other species to constantly integrate visual and olfactory sensory cues,” the ... allowed for recording of single neuron activity.

These are live olfactory sensory neurons, the cells responsible for detecting odors. Cells infected by a common cold virus (green) carrying cilia genes can now make cilia (red). Disclaimer ...

Researchers have shown that as flies encounter an odor signal, the specific pattern of interference between olfactory receptors helps flies quickly compute the “gist” of the odor’s meaning.

Scientists have pondered how insects are able to smell, or extract information from odors, with a much smaller olfactory sensory system compared with mammals. Scientists at the University of ...

“I think . . . we’ll find out [multireceptor nuruons are] being used in other olfactory systems . . . perhaps, to make the neuron more sensitive to complex odors or . . . to ... The results “can help ...