The molecular basis for water taste in Drosophila

Peter Cameron, Makoto Hiroi, John Ngai and Kristin Scott ()
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Makoto Hiroi: 16 Barker Hall
John Ngai: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Functional Genomics Laboratory, 142 Life Sciences Addition
Kristin Scott: 16 Barker Hall

Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7294, 91-95

Abstract: A taste for water Animals must detect water in their environment to stay alive, but how they do it has remained unclear. Now PPK28, a member of the degenerin/epithelial sodium channel family, has been identified as the water taste receptor in Drosophila melanogaster. Other proteins of this family have been implicated in the detection of mechanical and salt stimuli.

Date: 2010
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