Neuroecology: a fly's bug detector

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Lucia Prieto Godino Richard Benton
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Drosophila avoid food contaminated by pathogenic bacteria and fungi using an olfactory pathway that is exquisitely tuned to a single microbial odour.

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Journal Current Biology
Volume 23
Issue number 1
Pages R20-R22
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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.039
Europe PubMed Central 23305664
Pubmed 23305664

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