Acknowledgement
We thank Dr. Craig Montell, Dr. Seok Jun Moon, Dr. Hubert Amrein, Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall, Dr. Anupama Dahanukar, Dr. John Carlson, and Dr. Richard Benton for kindly providing fly reagents. This work was supported by grants to Dr. Y.L. from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MIST) (NRF-2021R1A2C1007628); and by the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) grant funded by the Ministry of Environment of Korea. R.N.P. and B.S. were supported by the Global Scholarship Program for Foreign Graduate Students at Kookmin University in Korea.
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