Identification of neurons responsible for feeding behavior in the Drosophila brain

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 391-402

  Sun, Fei ^a,b   Wang, YiJin ^a   Zhou, YanQiong ^a,c   Van Swinderen, Bruno ^c   Gong, ZheFeng ^a,d   Liu, Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

CAFE assay; feeding behavior; proboscis extension response (PER); SOG; sugar sensing neurons

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GAL4 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TASTE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CARBOHYDRATES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; NEURONS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SUCROSE; TASTE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84899695404     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-014-4641-2     Document Type: Article

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