Elsevier, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 1(13), p. 103-110, 2003
DOI: 10.1016/s0959-4388(03)00011-4
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Recent experiments in Drosophila demonstrate striking stereotypy in the neural architecture of the olfactory system. Functional imaging experiments in mammals and honeybees suggest a mechanism of odor coding that translates discrete patterns of activity in olfactory glomeruli into an odor image. Future experiments in Drosophila may permit a direct test of this odor-coding hypothesis.