Majid Ghaninia

Jun 17, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Yuansheng Zhou |Thomas O'Connell |Majid Ghaninia |Brian Smith

AbstractOdors provide an important communication channel between plants and animals. Fruits, vital nutrient sources for animals, emit a complex array of monomolecular volatiles. Animals can use the structure of these mixtures to assess properties of fruit predictive of their nutritive and reproductive value. We analyzed the statistics of fruit odor mixtures sampled across stages of ripening and fermentation to find that they fall on a low-dimensional hyperbolic map.