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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Jeong YT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5031804 | biostudies-other | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20160919
Animals discriminate nutritious food from toxic substances using their sense of taste. Since taste perception requires taste receptor cells to come into contact with water-soluble chemicals, it is a form of contact chemosensation. Concurrent with that contact, mechanosensitive cells detect the texture of food and also contribute to the regulation of feeding. Little is known, however, about the extent to which chemosensitive and mechanosensitive circuits interact. Here, we show Drosophila prefers ...[more]