Combinatorial Pharyngeal Taste Coding for Feeding Avoidance in Adult Drosophila

Summary: Taste drives appropriate food preference and intake. In Drosophila, taste neurons are housed in both external and internal organs, but the latter have been relatively underexplored. Here, we report that Poxn mutants with a minimal taste system of pharyngeal neurons can avoid many aversive t...

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Main Authors: Yu-Chieh David Chen, Scarlet Jinhong Park, Ryan Matthew Joseph, William W. Ja, Anupama Arun Dahanukar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-10-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124719312240