Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Animals form sensory associations and store them as memories to guide behavioral decisions. Although unimodal learning has...

Understanding neuronal representations of odor-evoked activities and their progressive transformation from the sensory...

Sensing olfactory signals in the environment represents a crucial and significant task of sensory systems in almost all...

Optical imaging of intracellular Ca2+ influx as a correlate of neuronal excitation represents a standard technique for...

Evaluating odor blends in sensory processing is a crucial step for signal recognition and execution of behavioral...

In Drosophila melanogaster, the sex pheromone produced by males, cis-vaccenyl acetate (cVA), evokes a stereotypic...

The basic units of the olfactory system in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster provide references to their function and...

All animals must eat in order to survive but first they must successfully locate and appraise food resources in a manner...

Using olfactory neurons on their proboscis, moths weigh which flowers to visit Flowers without scent produce fewer seeds...

Max Planck researchers show that Manduca sexta recognizes the scent of flowers matching its proboscis and thereby...

Female Drosophila flies avoid oviposition sites that smell of parasitic wasps. This increases the survival rate of their...

Beta-cyclocitral is highly attractive to fruit crop pest In 2014, more spotted-wing Drosophila suzukii than ever before...

As a model for primary olfactory perception, the antennal lobe (AL) of Drosophila melanogaster is among the most...

Fruit flies use olfactory cues to detect healthy antioxidants in their food Antioxidants are natural food ingredients that...