Peripheral coding of taste

ER Liman, YV Zhang, C Montell - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Five canonical tastes, bitter, sweet, umami (amino acid), salty, and sour (acid), are detected
by animals as diverse as fruit flies and humans, consistent with a near-universal drive to …

[HTML][HTML] Common sense about taste: from mammals to insects

DA Yarmolinsky, CS Zuker, NJP Ryba - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
The sense of taste is a specialized chemosensory system dedicated to the evaluation of food
and drink. Despite the fact that vertebrates and insects have independently evolved distinct …

Bees prefer foods containing neonicotinoid pesticides

SC Kessler, EJ Tiedeken, KL Simcock, S Derveau… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The impact of neonicotinoid insecticides on insect pollinators is highly controversial.
Sublethal concentrations alter the behaviour of social bees and reduce survival of entire …

Molecular Architecture of Smell and Taste in Drosophila

LB Vosshall, RF Stocker - Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 2007 - annualreviews.org
The chemical senses—smell and taste—allow animals to evaluate and distinguish valuable
food resources from dangerous substances in the environment. The central mechanisms by …

The molecular and cellular basis of bitter taste in Drosophila

LA Weiss, A Dahanukar, JY Kwon, D Banerjee… - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
The extent of diversity among bitter-sensing neurons is a fundamental issue in the field of
taste. Data are limited and conflicting as to whether bitter neurons are broadly tuned and …

The Molecular Basis for Attractive Salt-Taste Coding in Drosophila

YV Zhang, J Ni, C Montell - Science, 2013 - science.org
Below a certain level, table salt (NaCl) is beneficial for animals, whereas excessive salt is
harmful. However, it remains unclear how low-and high-salt taste perceptions are …

Diverse mechanisms of taste coding in Drosophila

HKM Dweck, JR Carlson - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Taste systems encode chemical cues that drive vital behaviors. We have elucidated
noncanonical features of taste coding using an unconventional kind of electrophysiological …

Insect odor and taste receptors

EA Hallem, A Dahanukar… - Annual review of …, 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Insect odor and taste receptors are highly sensitive detectors of food, mates, and
oviposition sites. Following the identification of the first insect odor and taste receptors in …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of salt taste

A Taruno, MD Gordon - Annual Review of Physiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Salt taste, the taste of sodium chloride (NaCl), is mechanistically one of the most complex
and puzzling among basic tastes. Sodium has essential functions in the body but causes …

Reinforcement signalling in Drosophila; dopamine does it all after all

S Waddell - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Reinforcement systems are believed to drive synaptic plasticity within neural circuits that
store memories. Recent evidence from the fruit fly suggests that anatomically distinct …