Evolutionary Recoding of Olfactory Sensory Neurons
Gwénaëlle Bontonou, Tess Baticle, Sarah Hume, Tane Kafle, Batool Masood Mahmoud, Vaia Vlachou, M.W. Day, J. Roman Arguello
The paper studies how duplicated odorant receptor genes in Drosophila gain new expression in olfactory sensory neurons, showing evolutionary recoding without new neuron lineages.
bioRxiv · Jun 14, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology