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So proud of @istvan_taisz and @GaliliDana for this elegant and rich scientific story that finally links sex pheromone circuits to dimorphic behaviour in #Drosophila. And a lovely 🧵 to boot. Read and enjoy!
Sex pheromones are a great entry point to understand #brain #circuits. @istvan_taisz and I investigated how cVA, the canonical #Drosophila #pheromone, is processed to control social #behaviour – and how flies use cVA to “see” in the dark! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/14
ALT Drosophila male pheromone signals are separated into two central brain processing pathways cVA is used as a positional cue owing to an active mechanism for bilateral contrast Position (where) and identity (what) are separated at the 3rd layer of cVA processing Multimodal integration and distinct response kinetics increase signal specificity