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Acid sensing by sweet and bitter taste neurons in Drosophila melanogaster

Drosophila melanogaster can taste various compounds and separate them into few basic categories such as sweet, bitter and salt taste. Here we investigate mechanisms underlying acid detection in Drosophila and report that the fly displays strong taste aversion to common carboxylic acids. We find that...

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Autores principales: Charlu, Sandhya, Wisotsky, Zev, Medina, Adriana, Dahanukar, Anupama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3710667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23783889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3042