Bilateral olfaction: two is better than one for navigation
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* Corresponding author: Mark Stopfer stopferm@mail.nih.gov
1 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Lincoln Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
2 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Genome Biology 2008, 9:212 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-212
Published: 31 March 2008Abstract
Do animals require bilateral input to track odors? A recent study reveals that fruit fly larvae can localize odor sources using unilateral inputs from a single functional sensory neuron, but that an enhanced signal-to-noise ratio provided by dual inputs is helpful in more challenging environments.