Smelling on the fly: Sensory cues and strategies for olfactory navigation in Drosophila

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 216-222

  Gaudry, Quentin ^a   Nagel, Katherine I ^a   Wilson, Rachel I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA (ORGAN); ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FLYING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMOTAXIS; CUES; DROSOPHILA; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860381989     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.12.010     Document Type: Review

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