Neural mechanisms of alarm pheromone signaling.
Mol Cells
; 35(3): 177-81, 2013 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23471444
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.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pheromones
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Animal Communication
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Second Messenger Systems
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Chemoreceptor Cells
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Mol Cells
Journal subject:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
Year:
2013
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos