Bilateral olfaction: Two is better than one for navigation

Baranidharan Raman; Iori Ito; Mark Stopfer

doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-212

Bilateral olfaction: Two is better than one for navigation

Baranidharan Raman, Iori Ito, Mark Stopfer

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	212
Journal	Genome biology
Volume	9
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-212
State	Published - Mar 31 2008

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