Common sense about taste: from mammals to insects.

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Cell. 2009 Oct 16;139(2):234-44. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.10.001

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Common sense about taste: from mammals to insects. Zuker Lab

Yarmolinsky DA, Zuker CS, Ryba NJ

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Abstract

The sense of taste is a specialized chemosensory system dedicated to the evaluation of food and drink. Despite the fact that vertebrates and insects have independently evolved distinct anatomic and molecular pathways for taste sensation, there are clear parallels in the organization and coding logic between the two systems. There is now persuasive evidence that tastant quality is mediated by labeled lines, whereby distinct and strictly segregated populations of taste receptor cells encode each of the taste qualities.

PMID: 19837029 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Common sense about taste: from mammals to insects.

Note: Research in this publication was not performed at Janelia.

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PMID: 19837029 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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