Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Neuroscience: Shared circuits for care.

Current biology : CB·2026
Same author

Dissociating neural circuits of social and prosocial reward in rat helping behavior.

iScience·2026
Same author

Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the <i>Drosophila</i> male central nervous system.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2025
Same author

Plasticity of the parental brain.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2025
Same author

Integration of hunger and hormonal state gates infant-directed aggression.

Nature·2025
Same author

Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2025
Same journal

Cichlid fish as a model for understanding social dysfunction.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

On aims and methods in field neuroethology: Investigating neural mechanisms of behavior in semi-natural and natural contexts.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

Neurobiological interfaces connecting environmental change to monarch butterfly migration.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

Learning how to experience the world: From circuits to cell types to genes.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

Optical voltage imaging: ready to spark systems neuroscience.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
Same journal

The neuroendocrine basis for parental care in teleost fish.

Current opinion in neurobiology·2026
See all related articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Apr 7, 2026

Electrophysiological Recording from Drosophila Trichoid Sensilla in Response to Odorants of Low Volatility
07:49

Electrophysiological Recording from Drosophila Trichoid Sensilla in Response to Odorants of Low Volatility

Published on: July 27, 2017

9.6K

Pheromone processing in Drosophila.

Johannes Kohl1, Paavo Huoviala2, Gregory Sxe Jefferis2

  • 1Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Opinion in Neurobiology
|July 6, 2015
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Fruit flies help us understand how the brain processes sensory information, like pheromones, to guide behavior. Researchers are mapping these neural circuits from sensing to action.

More Related Videos

Ex Vivo Calcium Imaging for Visualizing Brain Responses to Endocrine Signaling in Drosophila
06:49

Ex Vivo Calcium Imaging for Visualizing Brain Responses to Endocrine Signaling in Drosophila

Published on: June 2, 2018

10.0K
Protocols for Visualizing Steroidogenic Organs and Their Interactive Organs with Immunostaining in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster
12:10

Protocols for Visualizing Steroidogenic Organs and Their Interactive Organs with Immunostaining in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster

Published on: April 14, 2017

11.0K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Apr 7, 2026

Electrophysiological Recording from Drosophila Trichoid Sensilla in Response to Odorants of Low Volatility
07:49

Electrophysiological Recording from Drosophila Trichoid Sensilla in Response to Odorants of Low Volatility

Published on: July 27, 2017

9.6K
Ex Vivo Calcium Imaging for Visualizing Brain Responses to Endocrine Signaling in Drosophila
06:49

Ex Vivo Calcium Imaging for Visualizing Brain Responses to Endocrine Signaling in Drosophila

Published on: June 2, 2018

10.0K
Protocols for Visualizing Steroidogenic Organs and Their Interactive Organs with Immunostaining in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster
12:10

Protocols for Visualizing Steroidogenic Organs and Their Interactive Organs with Immunostaining in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster

Published on: April 14, 2017

11.0K

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Animal Behavior
  • Sensory Processing

Background:

  • Understanding sensory processing is key to explaining behavior.
  • Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) is a valuable model organism for neuroscience research.
  • Pheromone processing circuits are increasingly well-characterized.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent advances in understanding pheromone processing in Drosophila.
  • To outline emerging principles of how chemical signals are transformed into behavior.
  • To identify future research directions in this field.

Main Methods:

  • Circuit analysis in Drosophila.
  • Behavioral assays.
  • Neurophysiological recordings.

Main Results:

  • Detailed mapping of neural pathways for pheromone detection and interpretation.
  • Identification of key neural computations transforming sensory input to motor output.
  • Emerging principles of sensory-gating and decision-making.

Conclusions:

  • Drosophila pheromone processing provides a powerful model for understanding neural computation.
  • The transformation of chemical signals to behavior involves complex circuit dynamics.
  • Future research will focus on integrating circuit-level understanding with behavioral outcomes.