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
