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  • Drosophila sechellia, a species closely related to the model species Drosophila melanogaster, bypasses a premature stop codon in neuronal cells to express a functional olfactory receptor protein from an assumed pseudogene template.

    • Lucia L. Prieto-Godino
    • Raphael Rytz
    • Richard Benton
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 539, P: 93-97

  • Collective behaviour in animal groups can improve individual perception and decision-making, but the neural mechanisms involved have been hard to access in classic models for these phenomena; here it is shown that Drosophila’s olfactory responses are enhanced in groups of flies, through mechanosensory neuron-dependent touch interactions.

    • Pavan Ramdya
    • Pawel Lichocki
    • Richard Benton
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 519, P: 233-236

  • There is much interest in how animals adapt behaviorally to their ecological niche. Here, the authors demonstrate a role for olfaction in the oviposition preference of the noni fruit specialist Drosophila sechellia, and evidence for an important contribution of Ir75b, a receptor for the noni odor hexanoic acid.

    • Raquel Álvarez-Ocaña
    • Michael P. Shahandeh
    • Richard Benton
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-15

  • Few tools exist to study molecular diversity during neurodevelopment. Here the authors apply a genetic immortalization method in Drosophila to generate a fate map of olfactory sensory lineages, examine the relationships of this map and the neuroanatomical, molecular and evolutionary properties of the mature circuits, and identify a novel factor controlling lineage development.

    • Phing Chian Chai
    • Steeve Cruchet
    • Richard Benton
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-17

  • The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying food texture detection are poorly understood. Here the authors show thatDrosophilacan discriminate food texture when feeding, and that this ability depends on NOMPC, a mechanosensory channel expressed in gustatory sensilla neurons.

    • Juan Antonio Sánchez-Alcañiz
    • Giovanna Zappia
    • Richard Benton
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-9

  • How do sensory systems encode prolonged stimuli? A study reveals molecular and circuit mechanisms by which C. elegans interprets oxygen concentration to produce both transient and long-lasting behaviors.

    • Richard Benton
    News & Views
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 15, P: 501-503

  • As in humans, the actions and reactions of male and female fruitflies during courtship are quite distinct. The differences seem to lie in gender-specific neural interpretations of the same sensory signals. See Letter p.686

    • Richard Benton
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 468, P: 639-640

  • The structure of insect odorant receptors (ORs) has remained elusive due to their lack of homology to other proteins and the inability to obtain OR crystals. Here, the authors use amino acid evolutionary covariation patterns to fold these proteins de novoand generate the first three-dimensional models of insect ORs.

    • Thomas A. Hopf
    • Satoshi Morinaga
    • Richard Benton
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 6, P: 1-7

  • Insect gustatory and olfactory receptor genes encode transmembrane proteins that detect diverse chemicals, but their evolutionary origins are unclear. This study identifies homologues of these genes in non-Bilateria and reveals an unexpected role for one in sea anemone embryonic development.

    • Michael Saina
    • Henriette Busengdal
    • Richard Benton
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 6, P: 1-12

  • A neurogenetic model, Drosophila sechellia—a relative of Drosophila melanogaster that has developed an extreme specialization for a single host plant—sheds light on the evolution of interspecific differences in behaviour.

    • Thomas O. Auer
    • Mohammed A. Khallaf
    • Richard Benton
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 579, P: 402-408

  • The CD36-related Sensory Neuron Membrane Protein 1 (SNMP1) facilitates pheromone detection by insect odorant receptors. Here Gomez-Diaz et al.show that the SNMP1 ectodomain is essential for function and propose that it forms a tunnel that transports pheromones from the extracellular fluid to their cognate receptors.

    • Carolina Gomez-Diaz
    • Benoîte Bargeton
    • Richard Benton
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-17

  • Fruit flies gain valuable information about their environment by sensing chemicals. Here, Arguello et al. show strong signals of recent selection on the chemosensory system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, consistent with the adaptation of populations to their local chemical environment.

    • J. Roman Arguello
    • Margarida Cardoso-Moreira
    • Richard Benton
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-12

  • Little is known about the role of variant ionotropic glutamate receptors (IRs) in insect taste. Here the authors characterise the expression pattern of IRs in the Drosophila gustatory system and highlight the role of one receptor, IR56d, in the detection of carbonation

    • Juan Antonio Sánchez-Alcañiz
    • Ana Florencia Silbering
    • Richard Benton
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-14