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SUBMITTER: Root CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4231015 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Root Cory M CM Denny Christine A CA Hen René R Axel Richard R
Nature 20141105 7526
Innate behaviours are observed in naive animals without prior learning or experience, suggesting that the neural circuits that mediate these behaviours are genetically determined and stereotyped. The neural circuits that convey olfactory information from the sense organ to the cortical and subcortical olfactory centres have been anatomically defined, but the specific pathways responsible for innate responses to volatile odours have not been identified. Here we devise genetic strategies that demo ...[more]