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Research Interests
- Olfactory neuroanatomical development
- Neurophysiological basis of preferential choice behavior: foods and mates
- The interaction between olfaction and gustation in flavor perception
- Odor-based genetic relatedness assessment and kin recognition mechanisms
Selected Publications
Todrank, J. and Heth, G. (2003). Odor-genes covariance and genetic relatedness assessments: Rethinking odor-based "recognition" mechanisms in rodents. Advances in the Study of Behavior 32: 77-130.
Heth, G., Todrank, J., Busquet, N. and Baudoin, C. (2003). Genetic relatedness assessment through individual odour similarities (G-ratios) in mice. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78(4): 595-603.
Heth, G., Todrank, J., Begall, S., Wegner, R., and Burda, H. (2004). Genetic relatedness discrimination in a eusocial mole-rat, Cryptomys anselli (Bathyergidae, Rodentia). Folia Zoologica 53(3): 269-278.
Todrank, J., Busquet, N., Baudoin, C., and Heth, G. (2005). Preferences of newborn mice for odours indicating closer genetic relatedness: Is experience necessary? Proceedings of the Royal Society London, B 272: 2083-2088.
Todrank, J. and Heth, G. (2006). Crossed assumptions foster misinterpretations about recognition mechanisms. Animal Behaviour 72:e1-e3 doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.004.
Tzur, S., Todrank, J., Juergens, A., Nevo, E., and Heth, G. (2009). Odour-genes covariance within a natural population of subterranean Spalax galili blind mole rats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96:483-490.
Todrank, J., Heth, G., and Restrepo, D. (2011). Effects of in utero odorant exposure on neuroanatomical development of the olfactory bulb and odour preferences. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, B 278:1949-1955.