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**Hypothesis**
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-Fast-moving animals need fast-acting sensory systems. Flying insects have exceptionally fast senses.
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-For example, flighted insects can track the temporal structure of odour plumes at rates above 100 Hz,
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-and it has been hypothesized that this fast smelling capability is an adaptation for flying.
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-We test this hypothesis by comparing the olfactory acuity of sympatric flighted versus flightless
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-lineages within a wing-polymorphic stonefly species.
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+Insects have exceptionally fast smelling capabilities, and some can track the temporal structure of odour plumes at rates above 100 Hz. It has been hypothesized that this fast smelling capability is an adaptation for flying. We test this hypothesis by comparing the olfactory acuity of sympatric flighted versus flightless lineages within a wing-polymorphic stonefly species.
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**Data**
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