Dietary diversity, sociality, and the evolution of ant gustation
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Ants have remarkably diverse diets and extraordinary species richness, making them an excellent model system to study the evolution of taste. In this entirely eusocial clade, food choice and the mechanisms that regulate feeding have both individual and ...
E. Jordan Smith +4 more
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Evolution of lateralized gustation in nematodes [PDF]
eLifeAnimals with small nervous systems have a limited number of sensory neurons that must encode information from a changing environment. This problem is particularly exacerbated in nematodes that populate a wide variety of distinct ecological niches but ...
Marisa Mackie +10 more
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Interaction between Olfaction and Gustation by Using Synchrony Perception Task
i-Perception, 2011 It seems that interaction between olfaction (smell sensation) and gustation (taste sensation) will stronger than other interactions among five senses, although no one has ever confirmed psychophysically.
Tatsu Kobayakawa, Naomi Gotow
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Transcriptome Screening and Identification of Chemosensory Genes in the Goji Berry Psyllid, Bactericera gobica (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) [PDF]
BiologyGoji berry is widely consumed worldwide and holds substantial market value, yet its cultivation faces significant threats from the goji berry psyllid (Bactericera gobica).
Zhanghui Liu +10 more
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Association between olfactory dysfunction and gustatory dysfunction: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundOlfactory dysfunction (OD) and gustatory dysfunction (GD) are common among adults, with prevalence increasing significantly in older age groups.
Yi Yang +4 more
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Bitter Taste Disrupts Spatial Discrimination of Piperine-Evoked Burning Sensations: A Pilot Study
Biology, 2021 This study aimed to investigate the perceptual similarity between piperine-induced burning sensations and bitter taste using piperine-impregnated taste strips (PTS). This pilot study included 42 healthy participants.
David T. Liu +5 more
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Investigating the Link between Eating Attitudes, Taste and Odour Preferences and the Chemical Senses
Biology, 2023 Objectives: To examine if higher degrees of pathological eating attitudes in a non-clinical sample are associated with odour and taste perception and preferences based on psychophysical ratings.
Layla St Clair +2 more
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Olfactory and Gustatory Supra-Threshold Sensitivities Are Linked to Ad Libitum Snack Choice
Foods, 2022 Snacking is a common eating habit in the modern food environment. Individual snack choices vary substantially, with sweet versus savoury snacks linked to differential health outcomes. The role of olfactory and gustatory sensitivities in snack choices and
Sashie Abeywickrema +3 more
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Life, 2023 This research investigates how fourth-instar larvae of the potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella, respond to plant secondary metabolites (sucrose, glucose, nicotine, and tannic acid) both in terms of gustatory electrophysiology and feeding behavior.
Ni Mu +6 more
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Multimodal Information Processing and Associative Learning in the Insect Brain
Insects, 2022 The study of sensory systems in insects has a long-spanning history of almost an entire century. Olfaction, vision, and gustation are thoroughly researched in several robust insect models and new discoveries are made every day on the more elusive thermo-
Devasena Thiagarajan, Silke Sachse
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