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Visually Mediated Odor Tracking During Flight in Drosophila
Published on: January 26, 2009
Multimodal integration: visual cues help odor-seeking fruit flies
1Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. cg23@cornell.edu
Current Biology : CB
|April 10, 2008
Abstract:
Olfactory stimuli are uniquely devoid of directional information, so that multimodal cues are typically required for their localization. A clever new experimental paradigm with flying Drosophila has shown that accurate heading into an odor plume requires panoramic visual cues.
