Olfaction is an essential sensory modality for insects and their olfactory environment is
mostly made up of plant-emitted volatiles. The terrestrial vegetation produces an amazing …

Insect life strategies comprise all levels of sociality from solitary to eusocial, in which
individuals form persistent groups and divide labor. With increasing social complexity, the …

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 …

Five canonical tastes, bitter, sweet, umami (amino acid), salty, and sour (acid), are detected
by animals as diverse as fruit flies and humans, consistent with a near-universal drive to …

Ants exhibit cooperative behaviors and advanced forms of sociality that depend on
pheromone-mediated communication. Odorant receptor neurons (ORNs) express specific …

Although eusociality evolved independently within several orders of insects, research into
the molecular underpinnings of the transition towards social complexity has been confined …

Abstract Ionotropic Receptors (IRs) are a recently characterized family of olfactory receptors
in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. IRs are not related to insect Odorant Receptors …

Life inside ant colonies is orchestrated with diverse pheromones, but it is not clear how ants
perceive these social signals. It has been proposed that pheromone perception in ants …

The olfactory sense detects a plethora of behaviorally relevant odor molecules; gene
families involved in olfaction exhibit high diversity in different animal phyla. Insects detect …

The evolutionary origins of the three major families of chemoreceptors in arthropods—the
odorant receptor (OR), gustatory receptor (GR), and ionotropic receptor (IR) families …