Insect Taste

by Cobb, Matthew Marion-Poll, Frédéric Newland, Philip L.

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Insect Taste offers an accessible overview to some of the many advances in insect taste research. The book covers how insects solve the basic problem of taste gustatory processing, from detection and transduction, through coding to the generation of behavior and the evolutionary biology underpinning gustaory learning.

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Full title :Insect Taste / edited by Philip L. Newland, Matthew Cobb and Frédéric Marion-Poll.

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Publication Date:2009.

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Publisher(s):Taylor & Francis Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

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Description:online resource (xiv, 263 s.) : : illustrations.

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ISBN:9780203866757, 0203866754
oclc:on1001705817
Dewey Decimal:573.8781576

Chapter 1. Gustation in Drosophila Melanogaster / Matthew Cobb, Kristin Scott and Michael Pankratz -- Chapter 2. Drosophila Gr5a: Expression Pattern, Ligand Profile and Transduction Pathway / Sylwester Chyb -- Chapter 3. Neurophysiology of Gustatory Receptor Neurons in Drosophila / Teiichi Tanimura, Makoto Hiroi, Tsuyoshi Inoshita and Frédéric Marion-Poll -- Chapter 4. Chemosensory Regulation of Feeding in the Blowfly: Several Studies after the Hungry Fly / Mamiko Ozaki and Tadashi Nakamura -- Chapter 5. Tasting in Plant-Feeding Insects: From Single Compounds to Complex Natural Stimuli / Joop J.A. van Loon, Qingbo Tang, Honglei Wang, Chenzhu Wang, Dongsheng Zhou and Hans M. Smid -- Chapter 6. Tasting Toxicants as Bitter: Phytoecdysteroids / Frédéric Marion-Poll, Delphine Calas, Dalida Darazy-Choubaya, Ceþcile Faucher and Charles Descoins -- Chapter 7. Peripheral Modulation of Taste Responses / Hansjürgen Schuooe and Philip L. Newland -- Chapter 8. The "Sweet Tooth" of the Honeybee: The Perception of Nectar and its Influence on Honeybee Behaviour / Geraldine A. Wright -- Chapter 9. Effects of Experience on the Physiology of Taste Discrimination in Insects / Marta L. del Campo, Caro…