Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Molecular Genetic Dissection of the Zebrafish Olfactory System

   • Y. Yoshihara

   Pages 1-19

3. The Receptor Basis of Sweet Taste in Mammals

   • S. Vigues, C.D. Dotson, S.D. Munger

   Pages 20-23

4. Odorant Receptor Gene Choice and Axonal Projection in the Mouse Olfactory System

   • T. Imai, H. Sakano

   Pages 25-36

5. Extraordinary Diversity of Chemosensory Receptor Gene Repertoires Among Vertebrates

   • P. Shi, J. Zhang

   Pages 57-75

6. Mammalian Bitter Taste Perception

   • M. Behrens, W. Meyerhof

   Pages 77-96

7. Gustation in Fish: Search for Prototype of Taste Perception

   • A. Yasuoka, K. Abe

   Pages 97-120

8. Orosensory Perception of Dietary Lipids in Mammals

   • P. Passilly-Degrace, D. Gaillard, P. Besnard

   Pages 121-138

9. Pheromone Sensing in Mice

   • I. Rodriguez, U. Boehm

   Pages 139-185

10. Smelling, Tasting, Learning: Drosophila as a Study Case

    • B. Gerber, R.F. Stocker, T. Tanimura, A.S. Thum

    Pages 187-202

11. Insect Olfaction: Receptors, Signal Transduction, and Behavior

    • K. Sato, K. Touhara*

    Pages 203-220

12. The Molecular Evolution of Teleost Olfactory Receptor Gene Families

    • Sigrun Korsching

    Pages 221-238

13. Genomics of Olfactory Receptors

    • Xiaohong Zhang*, Stuart Firestein

    Pages 239-255

14. Back Matter

    Pages 257-261

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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 rst 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 vertebrates, including shes and other phyla, i. e. , arthropods, worms, and insects, showing both the general validity of these concepts and some exceptions to the rule. In parallel, hallmarks of the molecular logic of taste sensation have been deciphered and found to differ in interesting ways from those of smell sensation.

• Mammalia
• Olfaction
• behavior
• perception
• predator
• receptor
• taste
• transduction

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