... 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...

... show that in-flight aversive flight behavior shares all of the key features of attraction such that flies continuously ‘anti-track’ the noxious source. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 1 3 2012 18 4 2012 © 2012. 2012 insect flight odor tracking olfaction...

... their bases in biological neural networks. The observations presented above suggest the outline of an integrated neural model for odor tracking/avoidance in Pleurobranchaea . The schematic of Fig. 6 portrays the initial integration of afferent inputs from the oral veil in an interneuronal layer...

[email protected] ) 21 10 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 hot wire anemometry Manduca sexta wing flutter odor tracking convective heat loss airflow sensing Like rotating propeller blades, flapping wings of an insect draw air from above the wing and generate...