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Bilateral olfaction: two is better than one for navigation

Baranidharan Raman1,2, Iori Ito1 and Mark Stopfer1 email

1National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Lincoln Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

2National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:212doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-212

Published: 31 March 2008

Subject areas: Model organisms, Neurobiology, Genetics

Abstract

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.


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