supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 31672306 and 32070451 to Y.H.Z.and 31872227 to J.X.Z.];grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[grant number XDB11010400 to J.X.Z.].
Pheromonal communication plays a key role in the sociosexual behavior of rodents.The coadaptation between pheromones and chemosensory systems has been well illustrated in insects but poorly investigated in rodents and...
Rattlesnakes use chemical stimuli in ambush site selection and for relocation of envenomated prey through atrike-induced chemosensory searching. Shifts in responsiveness to prey chemicals have been documented in many ...
Snakes often have specialized diets that undergo a shift from one prey type to another depending on the life stage of the snake. Crotalus viridis viridis (prairie rattlesnake) takes different prey at different life ...
supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30900793);a grant from Key Project from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30930015) to P.S.;West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to H.Y.;by a start-up fund of "Hundreds Talent Program" from Chinese Academy of Sciences
Formyl peptide receptors (FPRs) were observed to expand in rodents and were recently suggested as candidate vomeronasal chemo-sensory receptors. Since vomeronasal chemosensory receptors usually underwent positive sele...
supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (2007CB411600);National Natural Science Foundation of China (U0836603);National Undergraduate Students Research Training Fund from Ministry of Education of China, National Fund for Fostering Talents of Basic Science (J0730652);Research Training Fund from Experiment Teaching Center of Life Sciences;Project of Higher Education Reform and Practice of Science and Engineering from Ministry of Education of China (239)
The recognition and perception of chemical signals from environments are very important for the survival of organisms.In mammals,general chemical signals are mainly detected by the main olfactory system (MOS),while ph...
the University of Sydney,the Australian Research Council and the Bao's Foundation(China)for funding
Most mobile organisms respond to multiple cues when selecting habitat types,and laboratory experiments that manipulate only single cues may fail to reveal the true complexity of habitat-selection behaviour.In south-ea...