title: Pheromone processing in Drosophila.
abstract: Understanding how sensory stimuli are processed in the brain to instruct appropriate behavior is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Drosophila has become a powerful model system to address this problem. Recent advances in characterizing the circuits underlying pheromone processing have put the field in a position to follow the transformation of these chemical signals all the way from the sensory periphery to decision making and motor output. Here we describe the latest advances, outline emerging principles of pheromone processing and discuss future questions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: jkohl@fas.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kohl
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
authors.forename: Paavo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Huoviala
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. Electronic address: jefferis@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Gregory Sxe
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Jefferis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D010675:Pheromones / Q000378:metabolism*; D012727:Sex Characteristics
chemical_list: D010675:Pheromones