Biological rhythms: the taste-time continuum.

Curr Biol

Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, North Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada.

Published: February 2010

The gustatory system allows the fly to assess food quality, eliciting either acceptance or avoidance behaviors. A new study demonstrates that circadian clocks in gustatory receptor neurons regulate rhythms in taste sensitivity, drive rhythms in appetitive behavior and influence feeding.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.01.010DOI Listing

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