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. 2018 Sep 10;28(17):R933-R936.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.032.

Insect Orientation: Stay on Course with the Sun

M Jerome Beetz  1 , Basil El Jundi  2
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Insect Orientation: Stay on Course with the Sun

M Jerome Beetz et al. Curr Biol. .
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A new study demonstrates that fruit flies can use a sun compass, which is encoded in specific neurons in the fly's brain, to maintain a fixed heading direction for up to six hours.

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    Giraldo YM, Leitch KJ, Ros IG, Warren TL, Weir PT, Dickinson MH. Giraldo YM, et al. Curr Biol. 2018 Sep 10;28(17):2845-2852.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.002. Epub 2018 Aug 30. Curr Biol. 2018. PMID: 30174187 Free PMC article.

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