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Science 23 August 1963:
Vol. 141. no. 3582, pp. 716 - 717
DOI: 10.1126/science.141.3582.716
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Olfactory Receptor Response to the Cockroach Sexual Attractant

Jurgen Boeckh 1, Ernst Priesner 1, Dietrich Schneider 1, and Martin Jacobson 2

1 Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie, Max-Planck-Institut, Abteilung für vergleichende Neurophysiologie, Kraepelinstrasse 2, Munich 2, Germany
2 Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

The recently isolated sex attractant of the female American cockroach elicits an electical response in the antennae of males, females, and mymphs of this species. These electroantennograms are known to be summated receptor (generator) potentials of many olfactory sensillae stimulated simultaneously. Many other odorous substances also elicit such responses in the cockroach antenna.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Antennal Receptors: Reactions to Female Sex Attractant in Periplaneta americana.
J. Boeckh, H. Sass, and D. R. A. Wharton (1970)
Science 168, 589
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Insect Olfaction: Deciphering System for Chemical Messages.
D. Schneider (1969)
Science 163, 1031-1037
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Letters to the Editor.
M. Jacobson and M. Beroza (1963)
Science 142, 1258-1261
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