In the new study, Huang, Sigrist, and colleagues examined this question using Drosophila insomniac (inc) short sleep mutants. The inc mutants showed robustly increased performance in olfactory ...

In recent years, some studies have found a link between people's ability to perceive and identify odors (i.e., olfactory function) and their cognitive abilities as older adults. While the ...

In their study, the scientists focused on the olfactory circuit of Drosophila melanogaster, because the sense of smell determines important behavioral patterns in these flies and is essential for ...

Drosophila melanogaster is also known as the ... Departments of Evolutionary Neuroethology and Insect Symbiosis and the Olfactory Coding Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...

We study how the brain represents sensory information to allow it to store unique memories, using the olfactory system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. How does the brain ...

1.Kato, A., Ohta, K., Okanoya, K., Kazama, H.: "Dopaminergic neurons dynamically update sensory values during olfactory maneuver." Cell Reports 42, 113122 (2023). 2 ...