ReviewInsects2022
Olfactory Strategies in the Defensive Behaviour of Insects.
Review in Insects, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluation of the Alkaloid Secretions within the Millipede Brachycybe and Their Pheromone Properties.Journal of natural products · 2026Article
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- Ecology and evolution of pyrazines in insects.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Regurgitation of locusts dedicates chemical defense against predators.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Bed bug preferences for host odor or aggregation odor are differentially modulated by physiological state in various odorscapes.Pest management science · 2026Article
- Microbial metabolites as engines of behavioral variation across animals.Gut microbes · 2025Review
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- Ultrastructure and Transcriptome Analysis Reveal Sexual Dimorphism in the Antennal Chemosensory System ofInsects · 2025Article
- Loss of olfaction reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to a natural enemy.eLife · 2025Article
- Volatile Organic Compounds Release Under Threat in Bumblebees: Chemical Identification and Antennal Detection.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Nematode Pheromones as Key Mediators of Behavior, Development, and Ecological Interactions.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- The Pheromone Landscape ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- The role of dopamine in foraging decisions in social insects.Frontiers in insect science · 2025Review
- Colony defence in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris).PloS one · 2025Article
- TBM preferred to AlphaFold 3 for functional models of insect odorant receptors.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- Switching escape strategies in the parasitic ant cricket Myrmecophilus tetramorii.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Stridulatory Organs and Sound Recognition of Three Species of Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).Insects · 2024Article
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Abstract
Most animals must defend themselves in order to survive. Defensive behaviour includes detecting predators or intruders, avoiding them by staying low-key or escaping or deterring them away by means of aggressive behaviour, i.e., attacking them. Responses vary across insect species, ranging from individual responses to coordinated group attacks in group-living species. Among different modalities of sensory perception, insects predominantly use the sense of smell to detect predators, intruders, and other threats. Furthermore, social insects, such as honeybees and ants, communicate about danger by means of alarm pheromones. In this review, we focus on how olfaction is put to use by insects in defensive behaviour. We review the knowledge of how chemical signals such as the alarm pheromone are processed in the insect brain. We further discuss future studies for understanding defensive behaviour and the role of olfaction.
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