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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.
University of Southampton, UK The University of Manchester, UK Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
PrefaceChapter 1: Gustation in Drosophila MelanogasterChapter 2: Drosophila Gr5a: Expression Pattern, Ligand Profile and Transduction PathwayChapter 3: Neurophysiology of Gustatory Receptor Neurons in DrosophilaChapter 4: Chemosensory Regulation of Feeding in the Blowfly: Several Studies after the Hungry FlyChapter 5: Tasting in Plant-Feeding Insects: From Single Compounds to Complex Natural StimuliChapter 6: Tasting Toxicants as Bitter: PhytoecdysteroidsChapter 7: Peripheral Modulation of Taste ResponsesChapter 8: The "Sweet Tooth" of the Honeybee: The Perception of Nectar and its Influence on Honeybee BehaviourChapter 9: Effects of Experience on the Physiology of Taste Discrimination in InsectsChapter 10: Evolutionary Biology of Learning in Insect: The Search for Food