Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects
The sense of smell has varied roles in locating food, detecting predators, navigating, and communicating social information, whereas the taste system is focused on decision-making in food intake. The last decade has witnessed massive advances in understan
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Dietmar Richter Center for Molecular Neurobiology University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) University of Hamburg Martinistrasse 52 20246 Hamburg Germany [email protected]
Henri Tiedge The Robert F. Furchgott Center for Neural and Behavioral Science Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Department of Neurology SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York 11203 USA [email protected]
Series Editors D. Richter, H. Tiedge
Wolfgang Meyerhof, Sigrun Korsching (eds.)
Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects
Editors Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meyerhof Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschu Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIFE) Abt. Molekulare Genetik Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114-116 14558 Nuthetal Germany [email protected]
Prof. Sigrun Korsching Universität Köln Institut für Genetik Zülpicher Str. 47 50674 Köln Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-69918-7 e-ISBN 978-3-540-69919-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-69919-4 Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation ISSN 0080-1844 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009921136 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
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 first 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 vertebrat
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