Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprint
Activity-dependent survival of odorant receptor neurons in ants
Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Kayli R. Sieber, Olena Kolumba…·Hua Yan
The paper shows that in ants, orco mutations cause ORN apoptosis, but some ORNs survive by expressing Ir genes, suggesting chemosensory receptors mediate activity-dependent survival.