Olfactory cues and memories in animal navigation

Nat Rev Phys. 2024 Apr;6(4):215-216. doi: 10.1038/s42254-024-00710-7. Epub 2024 Mar 8.

Authors

Thierry Emonet^{1

2

3}, Massimo Vergassola^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
² Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
³ Quantitative Biology Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
⁴ Laboratoire de physique de l'École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
⁵ Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.

Abstract

Thierry Emonet and Massimo Vergassola discuss what research shows about how animals perform the feat of navigating by smell.

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