Insect Olfaction: Telling Food from Foe.
The same sensory signal can be interpreted differently according to context. A new study in Drosophila uses cell-type-specific tools to identify neural circuits that integrate context during olfactory processing and surprisingly implicates memory-recall neurons.
Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK; HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, 20147, USA.
Michael-John
MJ
Dolan
Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK.
Paavo
P
Huoviala
Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. Electronic address: jefferis@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
Gregory
G
Jefferis
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