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Keywords: biology of Drosophila and review of molecular and genetic methods, development of insect nervous systems, neuroblasts of the central nervous system or sensory mother cells of the peripheral nervous system are chosen by cell interactions, the lineage of a neuroblast and the identity of its

progeny, detection and processing of chemosensory information, signal processing of chemosensory information: a model, genetics of the chemosensory pathway, conservation of molecules, studying molecular and cellular function in Drosophila, genetic transformation of other insects, development of biological control methods