The banana code-natural blend processing in the olfactory circuitry of Drosophila melanogaster

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 5 FEB, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Schubert, Marco ^a,b   Hansson, Bill S ^a   Sachse, Silke ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blend coding; Drosophila; Gas chromatography; In vivo calcium imaging; Insect antennal lobe; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BANANA; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION;

EID: 84895434662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00059     Document Type: Article

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