Olfaction is a vitally important sense for all animals. There are striking similarities between
species in the organization of the olfactory pathway, from the nature of the odorant receptor …

Schild, Detlev, and Diego Restrepo. Transduction Mechanisms in Vertebrate Olfactory
Receptor Cells. Physiol. Rev. 78: 429–466, 1998.—Considerable progress has been made …

Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, which form the marine mollusc group the cephalopods, are
of great and increasing interest to marine biologists, physiologists, ecologists, environmental …

Animals display wide-ranging evolutionary adaptations based on their ecological niche.
Octopuses explore the seafloor with their flexible arms using a specialized" taste by touch" …

Octopuses of the family Octopodidae adopt two major life-history strategies. The rst is the
production of relatively few, large eggs resulting in well-developed hatchlings that resemble …

On the basis of anatomy and larval behavior, the apical sensory organ (ASO) of gastropod
veliger larvae has been implicated as the site of perception of cues for settlement and …

Providing squids--especially their giant axons--for biomedical research has now been
achieved in 10 mariculture trials extending through multiple generations. The noteworthy …

The morphological and physiological adaptations that the cephalopod sensory organs and
nervous system underwent during the course of evolution are briefly summarized. Special …

ACh, dopamine, noradrenaline, 5-HT, l-glutamate, and GABA are widely distributed in
cephalopods and probably all function as neurotransmitters; octopamine also occurs and at …

This is a portion of the eBook at doi: 10.7551/mitpress/1994.001. 0001 manner, Portia is
reminiscent of a robot in a 1950s science fiction movie. Under natural circumstances …