#geosmin — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #geosmin, aggregated by home.social.
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An Eau de Microbe for Every Memory
by Janie
It is terpenes like geosmin and many other molecules of microbial make that imbue so much of the world with scents. Commercial perfumes, too, are principally scented by terpenes and their derivatives and other molecules that are aromatic (aromatic both in the sense of...Read more → https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/03/an-eau-de-microbe-for-every-memory.html
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How do #bees respond to #geosmin, the #smell of rain and wet soil?
Great collaboration with Florencia Scarano, Mukilan Deivarajan, Ettore Tiraboschi, Amélie Cabirol, Morgane Nouvian, and @drtnowotny,
using #stinging assays, #electroantennography, #calciumimaging, and #snn simulations"Geosmin suppresses defensive behaviour and elicits unusual neural responses in honey bees" just published in Scientific Reports