A decision underlies phototaxis in an insecticide

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-350693
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.35069

Brembs, Björn

; Gorostiza, E. Axel

; Colomb, Julien

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Abstract

Like a moth into the flame-phototaxis is an iconic example for innate preferences. Such preferences probably reflect evolutionary adaptations to predictable situations and have traditionally been conceptualized as hard-wired stimulus-response links. Perhaps for that reason, the century-old discovery of flexibility in Drosophila phototaxis has received little attention. Here, we report that across ...