... explores the behavioral and neural mechanisms that insects use to locate food and mates using their sense of smell. Circuit Insect Search Neural mechanisms Odor tracking Olfaction National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000055...

... for staying alive . Commun. Integr. Biol. 2 , 497 - 500 . Duistermars B. J. , Frye M. A. ( 2008a ). Crossmodal visual input for odor tracking during fly flight . Curr. Biol. 18 , 270 - 275 . Duistermars B. J. , Frye M. A. ( 2008b ). A magnetic tether system...

... trailing orienting odor tracking decision Actively exploring animals make precise computations in their rapid and frequent decisions to turn toward or away from the varied stimuli present in the environment. The appropriateness of their decisions for turn direction and amplitude determines...

... to determine the alterations to plume structure in the vicinity of the antennae of a flying moth and its effect on odor tracking. For example, a series of recent experiments on the moth Helicoverpa zea suggest that these moths are able to distinguish between pheromone and antagonist odor sources separated...