In the control treatments, with no food or
food odors present, we did not observe these changes.
Not exact matches
Remarkably, the team finds that the degree to which these neurons respond when the fly is
presented different
food odors — apple, mango, banana — predicts «incredibly well how much the flies will «like» a given
odor,» says the lead author of the research paper, Jennifer Beshel, Ph.D., a postdoctoral investigator in the laboratory of CSHL Professor Yi Zhong, Ph.D..
And, importantly, when we
presented them with seawater scented with
odors of plastic debris, the schools responded in nearly the same way, clumping together and moving erratically as they would if they were searching for
food.
They
presented a different
food odor (e.g., pot roast), after participants saw a visual stimulus that was previously paired with a different
odor (e.g., caramel).