The fruit fly has multiple taste organs throughout its body to detect chemicals, called tastants, that signal whether a food is palatable or harmful. It is still unclear, however, how individual neurons in each taste organ act to control feeding. To explore this question, a team used the fly pharynx as a model to study whether taste information regulates sugar and amino acid consumption at the cellular level.
source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210727171549.htm
source https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210727171549.htm
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