LEADER 03018nam 2200457z- 450 001 9910161647403321 005 20210212 035 $a(CKB)3710000001041990 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58927 035 $a(oapen)doab58927 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001041990 100 $a20202102d2016 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aScents that matter - from olfactory stimuli to genes, behaviors and beyond 210 $cFrontiers Media SA$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 225 1 $aFrontiers Research Topics 311 08$a2-88919-813-8 330 $aScents can carry a lot of important information about the environment, conspecifics and other species. While some of these scents are positively related, as the odor of food, mating partners, or familiar conspecifics, other scents are associated with negative situations and events, e.g. the occurrence of a predator, an aggressive territorial conspecific or spoiled food. The present research topic is focused on such "scents that matter", i.e., scents that are crucial for the survival of an organism. Since many years, the importance of scents always attracts scientists to investigate how scents affect the behavior of mammals, via which mechanisms scents are perceived and how scents modulate neural circuitries responsible for behavior. We believe that this research topic gives a nice overview on current 'olfactory research.' Many of the contributions are focused on scents with aversive effects, i.e. kairomones or pheromones that warn about potential threats. These studies range from research articles identifying new active odor components of predator odors, describing the induced behavioral changes and the underlying neuroanatomical and neurochemical mechanisms, to review articles summarizing the findings of the last decades on this field. Other articles are focused on the effects of scents in social behaviors or on associative learning. This research topic also represents nicely the current combination of methodological approaches in 'olfactory research': cell biologists, geneticists, behavioral pharmacologists, neuroanatomists, and computational modelers work effectively together to unravel the mechanisms of how scents matters in humans and animals. 606 $aNeurosciences$2bicssc 610 $aBehavior 610 $aCommunication 610 $adefensive behavior 610 $aMammals 610 $aOdors 610 $aOlfaction 610 $aolfactory receptors 610 $apredators 610 $aSocial Behavior 615 7$aNeurosciences 700 $aThomas Endres$4auth$01277558 702 $aYasushi Kiyokawa$4auth 702 $aMarkus Fendt$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910161647403321 996 $aScents that matter - from olfactory stimuli to genes, behaviors and beyond$93011634 997 $aUNINA