ReviewJournal of chemical ecology2008
Physical processes and real-time chemical measurement of the insect olfactory environment.
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- Fly navigational responses exploit plume-specific odor motion and gradient cues.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Advances and Prospects in Odour-based Management of Filth Flies.Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Review
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- When noncanonical olfaction is optimal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Physical and biological effects on moths' navigation performance.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- Recalibrating Olfactory Neuroscience to the Range of Naturally Occurring Odor Concentrations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Hawkmoth Pheromone Transduction Involves G-Protein-Dependent Phospholipase Cβ Signaling.eNeuro · 2025Article
- Octopus track chemosensory plumes to find food.PloS one · 2025Article
- Classification of Odor-Derived Electroantennograms with Machine Learning.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- High-speed odor sensing using miniaturized electronic nose.Science advances · 2024Article
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- Dynamics of odor-source localization: Insights from real-time odor plume recordings and head-motion tracking in freely moving mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The spiking output of the mouse olfactory bulb encodes large-scale temporal features of natural odor environments.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Odour source distance is predictable from a time history of odour statistics for large scale outdoor plumes.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Design of Polymer Carriers for Optimized Pheromone Release in Sustainable Insect Control Strategies.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- Olfaction in the Anthropocene: NOScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Dynamics of odor-source localization: Insights from real-time odor plume recordings and head-motion tracking in freely moving mice.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Odor-mediated insect navigation in airborne chemical plumes is vital to many ecological interactions, including mate finding, flower nectaring, and host locating (where disease transmission or herbivory may begin). After emission, volatile chemicals become rapidly mixed and diluted through physical processes that create a dynamic olfactory environment. This review examines those physical processes and some of the analytical technologies available to characterize those behavior-inducing chemical signals at temporal scales equivalent to the olfactory processing in insects. In particular, we focus on two areas of research that together may further our understanding of olfactory signal dynamics and its processing and perception by insects. First, measurement of physical atmospheric processes in the field can provide insight into the spatiotemporal dynamics of the odor signal available to insects. Field measurements in turn permit aspects of the physical environment to be simulated in the laboratory, thereby allowing careful investigation into the links between odor signal dynamics and insect behavior. Second, emerging analytical technologies with high recording frequencies and field-friendly inlet systems may offer new opportunities to characterize natural odors at spatiotemporal scales relevant to insect perception and behavior. Characterization of the chemical signal environment allows the determination of when and where olfactory-mediated behaviors may control ecological interactions. Finally, we argue that coupling of these two research areas will foster increased understanding of the physicochemical environment and enable researchers to determine how olfactory environments shape insect behaviors and sensory systems.
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