Richardthughes
Posts: 11178 Joined: Jan. 2006
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Quote (GaryGaulin @ Dec. 17 2012,22:33) | Quote (Tom A @ Dec. 17 2012,21:46) | Quote (GaryGaulin @ Dec. 17 2012,20:28) | Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,Dec. 17 2012,20:08) | so fucking what?
will this teach us anything about the way insects actually taste things? if so, how do you know? |
I know you're slow, so here's a clue:
Quote | Taste Perception in Honey Bees
Maria Gabriela de Brito Sanchez
Université Paul Sabatier, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
2CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Abstract
Taste is crucial for honeybees for choosing profitable food sources, resins, water sources, and for nestmate recognition. Peripheral taste detection occurs within cuticular hairs, the chaetic and basiconic sensilla, which host gustatory receptor cells and, usually a mechanoreceptor cell. Gustatory sensilla are mostly located on the distal segment of the antennae, on the mouthparts, and on the tarsi of the forelegs. These sensilla respond with varying sensitivity to sugars, salts, and possibly amino acids, proteins, and water. So far, no responses of receptor cells to bitter substances were found although inhibitory effects of these substances on sucrose receptor cells could be recorded. When bees are free to express avoidance behaviors, they reject highly concentrated bitter and saline solutions. However, such avoidance disappears when bees are immobilized in the laboratory. In this case, they ingest these solutions, even if they suffer afterward a malaise-like state or even die from such ingestion. Central processing of taste occurs mainly in the subesophageal ganglion, but the nature of this processing remains unknown. We suggest that coding tastants in terms of their hedonic value, thus classifying them in terms of their palatability, is a basic strategy that a central processing of taste should achieve for survival. |
http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content....75.long
Now go run along with your friends to look for ways to not allow working models of things not yet understood to be called "scientific". |
You didn't have a damn thing to do with the paper that you keep linking to, did you?
Maybe that is a simple enough question to answer. |
I do not write lab research papers, I have to study them, for computer models that I do write, which get published where they are welcomed and needed for educational value. |
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