1st Edition
Insect Taste Vol 63
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.
Preface. Philip L. Newland
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, Cécile Faucher, Charles Descoins
Chapter 7: Peripheral modulation of taste responses. Hans Schüppe 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, Carol I. Miles and Marina C. Caillaud
Chapter 10: Evolutionary biology of learning in insect: the search for food. Frédéric Mery
Biography
University of Southampton, UK The University of Manchester, UK Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
