A general odorant background affects the coding of pheromone stimulus intermittency in specialist olfactory receptor neurones

• Published in: Plos One 10 (6), 1-13. (2011)
• Main Authors: Rouyar, Angéla, Party, Virginie, Prešern, Janez, Andrej, Blejec
• Format: Publication
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: comportement; linalol; moth; olfactory recepter neurone; papillon; pheromone; phéromone; spodopteria littoralis

In nature the aerial trace of pheromone used by male moths to find a female appears as a train of discontinuous pulses separated by gaps among a complex odorant background constituted of plant volatiles. We investigated the effect of such background odor on behavior and coding of temporal parameters...