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Personally I like words more than bugs, but I thought it
would only be good form to give this guy some play…
Drosophila melanogaster, the lowly fruit fly, is the one
creature whose olfactory system is the most extensively studied of any animal.
Most of what we know about human olfaction was first studied via the fruit fly.
Actually, a lot of what we know about human biology and genetics in general
come from this, the most scientifically useful eukaryote there is. Caenorhabditis
elegans (C. elegans, the lowly roundworm) is a close second for premier
entomological fame, but their olfactory system is too different from ours (and
I’m not really sure if worms are insects anyway).
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