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SUBMITTER: Houot B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5220339 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Houot Benjamin B Gigot Vincent V Robichon Alain A Ferveur Jean-François JF
Scientific reports 20170109
The evolution of powered flight in insects had major consequences for global biodiversity and involved the acquisition of adaptive processes allowing individuals to disperse to new ecological niches. Flies use both vision and olfactory input from their antennae to guide their flight; chemosensors on fly wings have been described, but their function remains mysterious. We studied Drosophila flight in a wind tunnel. By genetically manipulating wing chemosensors, we show that these structures play ...[more]