Title: | Neural mechanisms of alarm pheromone signaling |
Address: | "Molecular Neurobiology Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. Anders.Enjin@med.nyu.edu" |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10059-013-0056-3 |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0219-1032 (Electronic) 1016-8478 (Print) 1016-8478 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Alarm pheromones are important semiochemicals used by many animal species to alert conspecifics or other related species of impending danger. In this review, we describe recent developments in our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the ability of fruit flies, zebrafish and mice to mediate the detection of alarm pheromones. Specifically, alarm pheromones are detected in these species through specialized olfactory subsystems that are unique to the chemosensitive receptors, second messenger-signaling and physiology. Thus, the alarm pheromones appears to be detected by signaling mechanisms that are distinct from those seen in the canonical olfactory system" |
Keywords: | *Animal Communication Animals Chemoreceptor Cells/*diagnostic imaging/*metabolism Olfactory Perception Pheromones/*physiology *Second Messenger Systems Smell Ultrasonography; |
Notes: | "MedlineEnjin, Anders Suh, Greg Seong-Bae eng R01 GM089746/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review Korea (South) 2013/03/09 Mol Cells. 2013 Mar; 35(3):177-81. doi: 10.1007/s10059-013-0056-3. Epub 2013 Mar 5" |