The sense of smell enables insects to recognize and discriminate a broad range of volatile
chemicals in their environment originating from prey, host plants and conspecifics. These …

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

In mammals, circadian oscillators exist not only in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which
harbors the central pacemaker, but also in most peripheral tissues. It is believed that the …

Mammalian circadian rhythms are generated by a feedback loop in which BMAL1 and
CLOCK, players of the positive limb, activate transcription of the cryptochrome and period …

We have isolated the" complete" repertoire of genes encoding the odorant receptors in
Drosophila and employ these genes to provide a molecular description of the organization …

Background: Low-amplitude temperature oscillations can entrain the phase of circadian
rhythms in several unicellular and multicellular organisms, including Neurospora and …

The circadian timing system in mammals is composed of a master pacemaker in the
suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus and slave clocks in most peripheral …

The olfactory systems of various species solve the challenging problem of general molecular
recognition in widely differing ways. Despite this variety, the molecular receptors are …

▪ Abstract The initial step in olfactory discrimination involves the interaction of odorous
ligands with specific receptors on the surface of olfactory sensory neurons. The foundation …

Olfaction, which is an important physiological function for the survival of mammals, is
controlled by a large multigene family of olfactory receptor (OR) genes. Fishes also have this …