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Signal Amplification in Drosophila Olfactory Receptor Neurons
Byoung Soo Kim1, Greg S B Suh2
1Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Neuron
|December 6, 2019
Abstract:
Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) transform scant chemical inputs into significant neural signals. This transformation requires signal amplification. In this issue of Neuron, Ng et al. (2019) identified a mechanism by which the signals evoked by pheromones are amplified in the ORNs that selectively promote courtship behavior in Drosophila.

