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Authors

Affiliation

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K), Mohanpur, West Bengal – 741246, India

Email

sukantkhurana@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Review

Date

Received February 06, 2015; Accepted February 26, 2015; Published April 30, 2015

Many insects, including Drosophila melanogaster, have a rich repertoire of olfactory behavior. Combination of robust behavioral assays, physiological and molecular tools render D. melanogaster as highly suitable system for olfactory studies. The small number of neurons in the olfactory system of fruit flies, especially the number of sensory neurons in the larval stage, makes the exploration of sensory coding at all stages of its nervous system a potentially tractable goal, which is not possible in the foreseeable future in any mammalian preparation. Advances in physiological recordings, olfactory signaling and detailed analysis of behavior, can place larvae in a position to ask previously unanswerable questions.

Keywords

Drosophila, olfaction, antenna, insects, mushroom body, antennal lobe, sensilla, olfactory receptors, odor-binding proteins.

Citation

Bose et al.   Bioinformation 11(4): 185-188(2015)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.