Remembering components of food in Drosophila

Remembering components of food in Drosophila

Remembering features of past feeding experience can refine foraging and food choice. Insects can learn to associate sensory cues with components of food, such as sugars, amino acids, water, salt, alcohol, toxins and pathogens. In the fruit fly Drosophila some food components activate unique subsets...

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Main Authors: Gaurav eDas, Suewei eLin, Scott eWaddell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Subjects:
Dopamine
Drosophila
Food
Insects
Neural Circuits.
Memories
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2016.00004/full

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