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Stereotopy versus stochasticity in olfaction

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Although projections from the insect antennal lobe to the mushroom body are probabilistic, those to the lateral horn are stereotyped, suggesting an interplay of preconfigured and plastic circuits in olfactory processing.

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Figure 1: Schematic organization of connectivity between the antennal lobe, lateral horn and mushroom body.

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    Rainer W Friedrich, Anastasios Moressis & Thomas Frank

  2. Rainer W. Friedrich is also at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,

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Friedrich, R., Moressis, A. & Frank, T. Stereotopy versus stochasticity in olfaction. Nat Neurosci 17, 147–149 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3630

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