chemoreception

Introduction
The senses of taste and smell
- Taste
- Smell
- Interaction between taste and smell
- Cellular mechanisms in chemoreception
  - Perireceptor events
  - Signal transduction
- Processing olfactory information
Chemoreception in different organisms
- Single-celled organisms
- Specialized chemosensory structures
- Animals with separate taste and olfactory systems
  - Arthropods
  - Vertebrates
    - Fish
    - Terrestrial vertebrates
Behavior and chemoreception
- Pheromones
  - Pheromone perception
  - Primer pheromones
- Movement toward an odor source
- Reproductive behavior
  - Insects
    - Sex-attractant pheromones
    - Aphrodisiac pheromones
    - Sex recognition
  - Mammals
- Territorial behavior
- Individual recognition
- Homing
- Finding and recognizing food
  - Plant chemicals
  - Attraction
  - Phagostimulation
  - Deterrents and repellents
  - Feeding decisions
  - Blood-feeding insects
- Chemical defense
  - Defensive odors
  - Defensive tastes
  - Predator chemical cues and prey escape
- Effects of experience
  - Early experience
  - Associative learning
- Influence of chemoreception in humans
  - Food additives
  - Odor and culture
  - Human uses of chemoreception in other animals
    - Dogs
    - Monitoring and controlling pests
    - Altering pest behavior

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