Multimodal Integration: Visual Cues Help Odor-Seeking Fruit Flies

Olfactory stimuli are uniquely devoid of directional information, so that multimodal cues are typically required for their localization. A clever new experimental paradigm with flying Drosophila has shown that accurate heading into an odor plume requires panoramic visual cues.

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