Multimodal integration: visual cues help odor-seeking fruit flies.
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.
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Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. cg23@cornell.edu
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D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D005426:Flight, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*