About Sensory Biology

Being able to receive, process and act upon external and internal signals is pivotal to an organism’s survival. From sensing cilia in eukaryotic cells, to sensory neurons and circuits, all are part of their sensory systems.

This Collection aims to understand all aspects of sensory biology, including reception of signals, transduction, and responses. Multidisciplinary methodology is welcome, such as genetics, expression analysis, transcriptomics, microscopy, experimental biology, bioinformatics, and electrophysiology.

Potential topics that can be submitted include but are not limited to:

• Senses: vision, olfaction, hearing, taste, and touch.
• Perception of heat, cold, pain, proprioception.
• Sensory transduction.
• Circuit formation.
• Behaviour: learning, memory, navigation, courtship.
• Entrainment of biological rhythms.
• Development and maintenance of the cellular networks supporting sensory biology.
• Sensory Ecology.

Only research funded by Horizon 2020 and/or Horizon Europe is eligible for publication on Open Research Europe. All article processing charges will be covered centrally by the European Commission.

Open Research Europe requires open access to research data supporting articles under the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’. All articles should include citations to repositories that host the data underlying the results, together with any information needed to replicate, validate, and/or reuse the results/your study and analysis of the data. We recognise there may be exceptions due to ethical, data protection, or confidentiality considerations, or because the data have been obtained from a third party and access restrictions apply.