Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Multimodal stimulus coding by a gustatory sensory neuron in Drosophila larvae

  • Lena van Giesen,
  • Luis Hernandez-Nunez,
  • Sophie Delasoie-Baranek,
  • Martino Colombo,
  • Philippe Renaud,
  • Rémy Bruggmann,
  • Richard Benton,
  • Aravinthan D. T. Samuel,
  • Simon G. Sprecher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10687
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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While gustatory systems have been extensively studied in adult Drosophila, not much is known about taste coding at the larval stage. Here, the authors investigate gustatory receptor neurons in larvae and find single neurons are capable of responding to more than one taste modality.