The texture-taste connection: Multimodal sensory neurons in fly larvae.

Eating is a multisensory experience: food's smell, look, and texture are as important as taste. A new study in PLOS Biology shows that fly larvae respond to food texture and integrate information from different modalities within a single gustatory neuron.

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Main Author: Katrin Vogt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003000
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Summary:Eating is a multisensory experience: food's smell, look, and texture are as important as taste. A new study in PLOS Biology shows that fly larvae respond to food texture and integrate information from different modalities within a single gustatory neuron.
ISSN:1544-9173
1545-7885