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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 10, 期 24, 页码 1583-1586出版社
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00860-5
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Taste receptors have recently been reported in Drosophila [1,2], but little is known of the relation between receptor and response. Morphological studies of the distribution of chemosensory sensilla indicate that the fruit fly has two major sites of gustation: the proboscis and the legs [3], The taste sensilla on both these sites are similar in structure and each sensillum generally houses four gustatory neurons [4]. Early anatomical observations have demonstrated a sexual dimorphism in the number of tarsal sensilla [5] and in their central projections [6], We measured the electrophysiological responses of the prothoracic taste sensilla to non-pheromonal substances - salts, sugars and water - and found a clear sexual dimorphism, From the response profile of individual sensilla, we were able to distinguish three types of tarsal sensilla in females as against only two types in males. The female specific type, which responded specifically to sugar, was absent in males except when male gustatory neurons were genetically feminised, The fact that tarsal gustatory hairs exhibit a sexual dimorphism that affects the perception of non-pheromonal compounds suggests that sexual identity is more complex than has previously been thought [7,8].
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