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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"odor cues"”.
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Memory Enhances Search Strategies During Odor-Guided Foraging
Odor-guided searches are notoriously difficult due to the sparse and intermittent nature of odor plumes. However, rodents can adaptively modify their search strategy using internal representations of their dynamic environment. This allows for selecting the optimal strategy for making use of complex …
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Influence of living and non-living habitat complexity on arthropods in strip-tilled cabbage fields
… a y-tube olfactometer to determine the role of odor cues from decaying mulch on habitat choice. In general, natural enemies were not attracted or repelled by mulch odors. Further work is needed before implementation of these habitat management strategies (e.g. mulching and reduced weed …
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The Effect of Maternal Separation and Postnatal Oxytocin Administration on Social Recognition in Adolescent Female Mice
… to the processing and discrimination of social cues, the primary aim of this dissertation was to determine whether separating female infant mouse pups from their mother, but not siblings, for 3 hrs daily, during the first two weeks of life, influences social recognition during adolescence …
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Biology and host finding of predaceous hister beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae) associated with Ips spp. (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.)
… utilized bark beetle pheromones as kairomonal odor cues to locate their prey. Histerid species had differential electrophysiological (antennal) and behavioral responses to three prey aggregation pheromones: ipsenol (produced by Ips grandicollis (Eichhoff)), ipsdienol (Ips avulsus (Eichhoff) and …
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The Neuropeptide Regulation of Host-Seeking Behavior in Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes
… it is known that mosquitoes require human odor cues to locate a human host, the critical odor components and associated olfactory receptors have not been identified (Klowden, 1995; Takken and Knols, 1999). Previous work showed that mosquito host-seeking behavior is inhibited by a …
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Honey Bee Communication: The Dance-Language Controversy
… bees advertise a food location with specific odor information as well as with symbolic distance and direction coordinates. Since recruited bees seem able to find food on the basis of site-specific locale odors alone, a conclusive test would be one in which the dancer gave symbolic directions …