Unlike some congenital anosmia sufferers, Abi does have an olfactory bulb, but the smells couldn't get through the top of the nose to reach it.
And here it was, what I'd been searching for: a sudden crash, the front door flinging back, Lisa and the stoner whose name I didn't want to know fumbling their way in, both of them as slow as syrup with the cumulative effect of downers and alcohol, and though the box didn't have an olfactory feature, I swear I could smell the tequila on them.
(Although "augmented gustation," as they dub this, also requires the VR player to have an olfactory cap on their head which puffs flavored air into their nostrils at the moment of mastication, corresponding with their taste choice, in order for them to experience the sensation of a eating a chocolate cookie, for example. So it's getting pretty out there, even by VR standards…).
I smelled something acrid and for a moment thought I was having an olfactory hallucination.
Juvenile salmon have an olfactory ability to imprint their natal stream odors, but neither the odor properties of natal stream water nor the imprinting timing and duration have been clarified as yet.
We tested whether terrestrial accumulations of feces in an arboreal species can be considered to have an olfactory signaling function.
The formyl peptide receptor-like proteins that are found in the vomeronasal organs in mammals have an olfactory function associated with the identification of pathogenic states.
The CNGA2 gene is on the X chromosome, and, due to dosage compensation, female CNGA2+/− mice have an olfactory epithelium that is a mosaic of CNGA2-positive andyingng CNGA2-negative OSNs (15).
In insects, the IRs are divided into two major groups: the "antennal IRs" that have an olfactory function and are conserved across insect orders, and the species-specific "divergent IRs", some of which have been assigned a tentative role in taste [ 33].
However, an attempt to separate the effect of host availability and attractiveness from the effect of altitudinal climate changes is necessary, since it was suggested that the degree of anthropophagy of An. gambiae has an innate olfactory basis [ 47].
