Sachse, Silke, Beshel, Jennifer (October 2016) The good, the bad, and the hungry: how the central brain codes odor valence to facilitate food approach in Drosophila. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 40. pp. 53-58. ISSN 0959-4388
Abstract
All animals must eat in order to survive but first they must successfully locate and appraise food resources in a manner consonant with their needs. To accomplish this, external sensory information, in particular olfactory food cues, need to be detected and appropriately categorized. Recent advances in Drosophila point to the existence of parallel processing circuits within the central brain that encode odor valence, supporting approach and avoidance behaviors. Strikingly, many elements within these neural systems are subject to modification as a function of the fly's satiety state. In this review we describe those advances and their potential impact on the decision to feed.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | organism description > animal > insect > Drosophila organism description > animal behavior organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > organs types and functions > brain organism description > animal behavior > odor recognition |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Dubnau lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | October 2016 |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2016 20:47 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2016 16:10 |
| PMCID: | PMC5056820 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/32958 |
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