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A General Odorant Background Affects the Coding of Pheromone Stimulus Intermittency in Specialist Olfactory Receptor Neurones

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...

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Autores principales: Rouyar, Angela, Party, Virginie, Prešern, Janez, Blejec, Andrej, Renou, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22028879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026443