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SUBMITTER: Nakamura M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6758379 | biostudies-literature | 2002 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nakamura Makoto M Baldwin David D Hannaford Susannah S Palka John J Montell Craig C
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20020501 9
Gustatory stimuli, such as sugar, induce a behavioral response in Drosophila that involves extension of the proboscis and consumption of the sugar-containing solution. Addition of salt to the sugar solution inhibits this behavioral response. However, the mechanisms and gene products involved in the salt aversion response have not been described. Here, we report the identification of a locus, defective proboscis extension response (dpr), that is required for salt aversion. dpr was expressed in a ...[more]