Active sampling and decision making in Drosophila chemotaxis

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gomez Marin, Alex ^a   Stephens, Greg J ^b   Louis, Matthieu ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMOTAXIS; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; SAMPLING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SNIFFING; STEREOTYPY; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LARVA; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHEMOTAXIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; LARVA; ODORS; RATS; SMELL;

EID: 80052399832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1455     Document Type: Article

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