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A genetic tool kit for cellular and behavioral analyses of insect sugar receptors.
Fly - 1 Jan 2014
Yavuz Ahmet, Jagge Christopher, Slone Jesse, Amrein Hubert
Abstract excerpt
Arthropods employ a large family of up to 100 putative taste or gustatory receptors (Grs) for the recognition of a wide range of non-volatile chemicals. In Drosophila melanogaster, a small subfamily of 8 Gr genes is thought to mediate the detection of sugars, the fly's major nutritional source. However, the specific roles for most sugar Gr genes are not known. Here, we report the generation of a series of mutant...
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