The survival advantage of olfaction in a competitive environment.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.075

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The survival advantage of olfaction in a competitive environment.

Current biology : CB - 5 Aug 2008

Asahina Kenta, Pavlenkovich Viktoryia, Vosshall Leslie B

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Olfaction is generally assumed to be critical for survival because this sense allows animals to detect food and pheromonal cues. Although the ability to sense sex pheromones [1, 2, 3] is likely to be important for insects, the contribution of general odor detection to survival is unknown. We investigated the extent to which the olfactory system confers a survival advantage on Drosophila larvae foraging for food...

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