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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Gordon MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2650400 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tastes elicit innate behaviors critical for directing animals to ingest nutritious substances and reject toxic compounds, but the neural basis of these behaviors is not understood. Here, we use a neural silencing screen to identify neurons required for a simple Drosophila taste behavior and characterize a neural population that controls a specific subprogram of this behavior. By silencing and activating subsets of the defined cell population, we identify the neurons involved in the taste behavio ...[more]