Since the 19th century, there has been disagreement over the fundamental question of
whether" emotions" are cause or consequence of their associated behaviors. This question …

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 …

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a key model organism in
neuroscience, in large part due to the concentration of collaboratively generated molecular …

Chemoreception is essential for survival. Feeding, mating, and avoidance of predators
depend on detection of sensory cues. Drosophila contains diverse families of …

Insects use taste to evaluate food, hosts, and mates. Drosophila has many" orphan" taste
neurons that express no known taste receptors. The Ionotropic Receptor (IR) superfamily is …

The CD36 family of transmembrane receptors is present across metazoans and has been
implicated biochemically in lipid binding and transport. Several CD36 proteins function in …

Drosophila show innate olfactory-driven behaviours that are observed in naive animals
without previous learning or experience, suggesting that the neural circuits that mediate …

Detection of volatile odorants by olfactory neurons is thought to result from direct activation
of seven-transmembrane odorant receptors by odor molecules. Here, we show that …

Significant progress has been made in understanding the cues involved in the host and
mate seeking behaviors of spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura). This …

Genetic approaches in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, have led to a major triumph in
the field of sensory biology—the discovery of multiple large families of sensory receptors …