title: Neural mechanisms of alarm pheromone signaling.
abstract: Alarm pheromones are important semiochemicals used by many animal species to alert conspecifics or other related species of impending danger. In this review, we describe recent developments in our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the ability of fruit flies, zebrafish and mice to mediate the detection of alarm pheromones. Specifically, alarm pheromones are detected in these species through specialized olfactory subsystems that are unique to the chemosensitive receptors, second messenger-signaling and physiology. Thus, the alarm pheromones appears to be detected by signaling mechanisms that are distinct from those seen in the canonical olfactory system.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Neurobiology Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. Anders.Enjin@med.nyu.edu
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Enjin
authors.forename: Greg Seong-Bae
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Suh
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D002628:Chemoreceptor Cells / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism*; D055696:Olfactory Perception; D010675:Pheromones / Q000502:physiology*; D015290:Second Messenger Systems; D012903:Smell; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D010675:Pheromones