Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects (eBook)

Wolfgang Meyerhof, Sigrun Korsching (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2009
XVIII, 262 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-69919-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The sense of smell has an essential role in locating food, detecting predators, navigating, and communicating social information. Accordingly, the olfactory system has evolved complex repertoires of receptors to face these problems. Although the sense of taste has less far-reaching tasks, they are every bit as essential for the animals well-being, allowing it to reject toxic materials and to select nutritionally valuable food. The last decade has seen a massive advance in understanding the molecular logic of chemosensory information processing, beyond that already achieved in the rst few years following Linda Bucks discovery of odorant receptors. Shortly afterwards, the major principles of olfactory representation had been established in mammals as the one neuron/ one receptor rule and the convergence of neurons, which express the same receptor, onto individual modules in the olfactory bulb. In recent years, such studies have been extended to lower vertebrates, including shes and other phyla, i. e. , arthropods, worms, and insects, showing both the general validity of these concepts and some exceptions to the rule. In parallel, hallmarks of the molecular logic of taste sensation have been deciphered and found to differ in interesting ways from those of smell sensation.

Inhalt

400_Results_FM.pdf 2
400_Results_Ch01.pdf 17
400_Results_Ch02.pdf 40
400_Results_Ch03.pdf 52
400_Results_Ch04.pdf 71
400_Results_Ch05.pdf 90
400_Results_Ch06.pdf 110
400_Results_Ch07.pdf 134
400_Results_Ch08.pdf 152
400_Results_Ch09.pdf 199
400_Results_Ch10.pdf 215
400_Results_Ch11.pdf 233
400_Results_Ch12.pdf 251
400_Results_Index.pdf 268

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation
• Reihe/Serie: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 262 p. 46 illus., 25 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Behavior • Mammalia • Olfaction • perception • Predator • receptor • Taste • Transduction
• ISBN-10: 3-540-69919-8 / 3540699198
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-69919-4 / 9783540699194