Involvement of a Gr2a-Expressing Drosophila Pharyngeal Gustatory Receptor Neuron in Regulation of Aversion to High-Salt Foods. [PDF]
Mol Cells, 2017 Regulation of feeding is essential for animal survival. The pharyngeal sense organs can act as a second checkpoint of food quality, due to their position between external taste organs such as the labellum which initially assess food quality, and the ...
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Avoiding DEET through Insect Gustatory Receptors [PDF]
Neuron, 2010 SummaryDEET is the most widely used insect repellent worldwide. In Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs), DEET is detected through a mechanism employing the olfactory receptor, OR83b.
Kim, Sang Hoon +5 more
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Ionotropic Receptors Mediate Drosophila Oviposition Preference through Sour Gustatory Receptor Neurons [PDF]
Current Biology, 2017 Yan Chen, Hubert Amrein
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Cucurbitacin B Activates Bitter-Sensing Gustatory Receptor Neurons via Gustatory Receptor 33a in Drosophila melanogaster. [PDF]
Mol Cells, 2020 The Gustatory system enables animals to detect toxic bitter chemicals, which is critical for insects to survive food induced toxicity. Cucurbitacin is widely present in plants such as cucumber and gourds that acts as an anti-herbivore chemical and an insecticide. Cucurbitacin has a harmful effect on insect larvae as well.
Rimal S, Sang J, Dhakal S, Lee Y.
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Chemosensory detection of aversive concentrations of ammonia and basic volatile amines in insects
iScience, 2023 Summary: Basic volatiles like ammonia are found in insect environments, and at high concentrations cause an atypical action potential burst, followed by inhibition in multiple classes of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) in Drosophila melanogaster ...
Jonathan Trevorrow Clark +5 more
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Plant insecticide L-canavanine repels Drosophila via the insect orphan GPCR DmX. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2009 For all animals, the taste sense is crucial to detect and avoid ingesting toxic molecules. Many toxins are synthesized by plants as a defense mechanism against insect predation.
Christian Mitri +5 more
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Stimulation of the gerbil's gustatory receptors by monosaccharides [PDF]
Brain Research, 1976 The gustatory responses of the Mongolian gerbil were tested with a large number of monosaccharides. Electrophysiological methods were used to record from the chorda tympani nerve. Methyl glycosides which have structural features in common with sucrose are the most effective monosaccharides for eliciting a neural response.
Jakinovich, Jr. , William +1 more
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Peripheral, central and behavioral responses to the cuticular pheromone bouquet in Drosophila melanogaster males. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Pheromonal communication is crucial with regard to mate choice in many animals including insects. Drosophila melanogaster flies produce a pheromonal bouquet with many cuticular hydrocarbons some of which diverge between the sexes and differently affect ...
Tsuyoshi Inoshita +3 more
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Gustatory receptors in Lepidoptera: chemosensation and beyond [PDF]
Insect Molecular Biology, 2016 Abstract Lepidoptera is one of the most widespread insect orders and includes several agriculturally important insect species. Ecological success of the lepidopteran insects partly depends on their adaptive chemoreception tactics, which play an important role in the selection of hosts, egg‐laying sites and mates ...
A R, Agnihotri, A A, Roy, R S, Joshi
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Immunohistochemical detection of TAS2R38 protein in human taste cells. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The sense of taste plays an important role in the evaluation of the nutrient composition of consumed food. Bitter taste in particular is believed to serve a warning function against the ingestion of poisonous substances.
Maik Behrens +6 more
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