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From: Love makes smell blind: mating suppresses pheromone attraction in Drosophila females via Or65a olfactory neurons

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Effect of mating on cVA attraction.

Attraction of D. melanogaster females to cVA released at 15 ng/min in one arm of a y-tube olfactometer. Females were tested before mating and 1 h after mating with fed males and starved males (n = 40, 27 and 20 respectively). The attraction index shows the time spent in the cVA arm of the olfactometer minus the time spent in the control arm divided by the total amount of time spent in both arms. Positive values indicate attraction to cVA whereas negative values show repellency. Asterisks indicate significant attraction (mean ± SEM, Wilcoxon test, ** p < 0.01). Photo by S. Lebreton.

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