Responses to Pheromones in a Complex Odor World: Sensory Processing and Behavior

Insects

Nina Deisig¹  Fabienne Dupuy²  Sylvia Anton² 

[1] Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), UMR 1392, Département d’Ecologie Sensorielle, INRA, Route de Saint-Cyr, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France; E-Mails:;Laboratoire RCIM, Université d’Angers, UPRES-EA 2647, USC INRA 1330, SFR 4207 QUASAV, UFR Sciences, 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, France; E-Mail:

关键词: sex pheromone;    plant odor;    odor interactions;    neural mechanisms;    mixture processing;    orientation behavior;   

DOI  :  10.3390/insects5020399

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Insects communicating with pheromones, be it sex- or aggregation pheromones, are confronted with an olfactory environment rich in a diversity of volatile organic compounds of which plants are the main releaser. Certain of these volatiles can represent behaviorally relevant information, such as indications about host- or non-host plants; others will provide essentially a rich odor background out of which the behaviorally relevant information needs to be extracted. In an attempt to disentangle mechanisms of pheromone communication in a rich olfactory environment, which might underlie interactions between intraspecific signals and a background, we will summarize recent literature on pheromone/plant volatile interactions. Starting from molecular mechanisms, describing the peripheral detection and central nervous integration of pheromone-plant volatile mixtures, we will end with behavioral output in response to such mixtures and its plasticity.

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