Bilateral olfactory sensory input enhances chemotaxis behavior

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-199

  Louis, Matthieu ^a   Huber, Thomas ^a   Benton, Richard ^a,b   Sakmar, Thomas P ^a   Vosshall, Leslie B ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEAD; LARVA; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHEMOTAXIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 38649117623     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn2031     Document Type: Article

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