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SUBMITTER: Yapici N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544016 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yapici Nilay N Cohn Raphael R Schusterreiter Christian C Ruta Vanessa V Vosshall Leslie B LB
Cell 20160331 3
Ingestion is a highly regulated behavior that integrates taste and hunger cues to balance food intake with metabolic needs. To study the dynamics of ingestion in the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, we developed Expresso, an automated feeding assay that measures individual meal-bouts with high temporal resolution at nanoliter scale. Flies showed discrete, temporally precise ingestion that was regulated by hunger state and sucrose concentration. We identify 12 cholinergic local interneurons ( ...[more]