Pharyngeal sense organs drive robust sugar consumption in Drosophila

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ledue, Emily E ^a   Chen, Yu Chieh ^b   Jung, Aera Y ^a   Dahanukar, Anupama ^b   Gordon, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FEEDING; FLY; NEUROLOGY; PARADIGM SHIFT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; DRIVE; DROSOPHILA; FEEDING; FOOD PREFERENCE; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; SATIETY; SENSE ORGAN; SUGAR INTAKE; SWEETNESS; TASTE BUD; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NONNUTRITIVE SWEETENER; NUTRITIVE SWEETENER; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; POXN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS; NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHARYNX; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 84925797534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7667     Document Type: Article

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