Chemosensory receptors convert an enormous diversity of chemical signals from the external
world into a common language of electrical activity in the brain. Mammals and insects use …

Through analysis of the Drosophila ionotropic receptors (IRs), a family of variant ionotropic
glutamate receptors, we reveal that most IRs are expressed in peripheral neuron populations …

Taste perception is thought to involve the encoding of appetitive and aversive chemical cues
in food through a limited number of sensory pathways. Through expression analysis of the …

In this thesis I investigated how odor information is represented and processed in the antennal
lobe (AL) of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In Drosophila, as in other animals, odor …

… Thanks to Ana Florencia Silbering for providing data analysis tools, to AF Silbering, C.
Giovanni Galizia, Martin Strauch and Anneke Meyer for fruitful discussions and comments on the …

Background Odors are represented by specific spatio-temporal activity patterns in the olfactory
bulb of vertebrates and its insect analogue, the antennal lobe. In honeybees inhibitory …

… We thank Ana Florencia Silbering for providing analysis routines for the behavioural data
and for statistical advice; Stephanie Biergans and Nadine Treiber for help with the behavioural …

We explored the transformations accompanying the transmission of odor information from
the first-order processing area, the antennal lobe, to the mushroom body, a higher-order …

Animals often use sensory cells with opposing polarity that are separately tuned to detect
increments or decrements of environmental stimuli. For example, cooling and warming cells …

… Kapitels, die den unglücklichen Versuch Don Pablos beschreiben, dODa Ana zu heiraten;
die Seiten des IX. Kapitels, in denen Don Pablos zum "galan de monjas" wird; das komplette …