Neural circuit evolved to process pheromone differently in two species of fruit fly

Nicolas Gompel () and Benjamin Prud’homme ()

Nature, 2018, vol. 559, issue 7715, 485-487

Abstract: The males of two closely related species of fly respond differently to a female pheromone. It emerges that this difference is due to alterations in the activity of an evolutionarily conserved neural circuit in the brain.

Keywords: Evolution; Neuroscience; Sensory systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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