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The pharyngeal taste organ of a blood-feeding insect functions in food recognition
BMC BiologyBackground Obligate blood-feeding insects obtain the nutrients and water necessary to ensure survival from the vertebrate blood. The internal taste sensilla, situated in the pharynx, evaluate the suitability of the ingested food.
Isabel Ortega-Insaurralde +10 more
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Mechanosensory neurons control sweet sensing in Drosophila
Nature Communications, 2016 How different sensory modalities interact to control feeding is poorly understood. Here, authors show that in Drosophila, activation of labellar mechanosensory neurons causes inhibition of sweet-sensing gustatory receptor neurons, as a result ...
Yong Taek Jeong +5 more
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The gustatory cortex and multisensory integration
, 2009 The central gustatory pathways are part of the brain circuits upon which rest the decision to ingest or reject a food. The quality of food stimuli, however, relies not only on their taste but also on properties such as odor, texture and temperature.
S A Simon +3 more
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Robotics for Crop Pollination: Recent Advances and Future Direction
Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review explores the potential of robotic pollination as a promising solution to these challenges affecting crop fertilization, agricultural sustainability, and ...
Ranjan Sapkota +3 more
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Silencing the gustatory receptor BtGR11 affects the sensing of sucrose in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. [PDF]
Front Bioeng Biotechnol, 2022 Li F +6 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change, political stability, and sustainability are three central factors that interact and serve as key drivers of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Accordingly, this paper aims to fill a vital research gap by examining the impacts of climate change, natural resource ...
Hicham Ayad +2 more
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Impact of Environmental Microparticles on Insect Olfaction
Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Terrestrial insects underpin key ecosystem services, including pollination, herbivory regulation, decomposition, nutrient cycling, and disease control. These functions depend on chemical communication that guides insects to food, mates, hosts, shelters, and oviposition sites while helping them avoid threats.
Steve B. S. Baleba +9 more
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Cholesterol taste avoidance in Drosophila melanogaster
eLifeThe question as to whether animals taste cholesterol taste is not resolved. This study investigates whether the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is capable of detecting cholesterol through their gustatory system. We found that flies are indifferent to
Roshani Nhuchhen Pradhan +2 more
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Structural screens identify candidate human homologs of insect chemoreceptors and cryptic Drosophila gustatory receptor-like proteins. [PDF]
Elife, 2023 Benton R, Himmel NJ.
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Adjusting Our Thinking About Feeding Animals: Fiber as the Metric for Mimicking Natural Diets
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.A typical effect of the change of an animal group to a diet higher in fiber: juveniles keep growing, animals of ideal body weight maintain their weight, and obese individuals lose weight. ABSTRACT Free‐ranging animals often ingest markedly different diets than their counterparts under human care, whether companion animals, production animals, or zoo ...
Marcus Clauss +4 more
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