A rise-to-threshold process for a relative-value decision

V Vijayan, F Wang, K Wang, A Chakravorty, A Adachi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Whereas progress has been made in the identification of neural signals related to rapid,
cued decisions,–, less is known about how brains guide and terminate more ethologically …

Flexible neural control of transition points within the egg-laying behavioral sequence in Drosophila

KM Cury, R Axel - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Innate behaviors are frequently comprised of ordered sequences of component actions that
progress to satisfy essential drives. Progression is governed by specialized sensory cues …

Neural circuitry linking mating and egg laying in Drosophila females

F Wang, K Wang, N Forknall, C Patrick, T Yang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Mating and egg laying are tightly cooordinated events in the reproductive life of all oviparous
females. Oviposition is typically rare in virgin females but is initiated after copulation. Here …

Two odorant receptors regulate 1-octen-3-ol induced oviposition behavior in the oriental fruit fly

L Xu, HB Jiang, JL Yu, D Pan, Y Tao, Q Lei… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) is a notorious pest of fruit crops. Gravid
females locate suitable oviposition sites by detecting host plant volatiles. Here, we …

A sex-specific switch between visual and olfactory inputs underlies adaptive sex differences in behavior

T Nojima, A Rings, AM Allen, N Otto, TA Verschut… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Although males and females largely share the same genome and nervous system, they
differ profoundly in reproductive investments and require distinct behavioral, morphological …