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This helps explain why human-specialist predators, like Aedes aegypti, show widespread co-expression, while more generalist species, like mice and fruit flies, do not

We showed that non-canonical olfactory systems can be optimal if

-the environment is "noisy"
-behaviorally relevant odorants are correlated

Olfactory systems in model organisms follow a "one-receptor-to-one-neuron" rule. But mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti ) violate this rule--they co-express multiple receptor types per neuron.

Why?

a cartoon of a mosquito with a website named ayamurata.com Alt: a cartoon of a mosquito with a website named ayamurata.com

New preprint out with @megyounger.bsky.social and @gkocker.bsky.social: "When non-canonical olfaction is optimal"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...