...Willem J. Laursen; Ruocong Tang; Paul A. Garrity ABSTRACT Animals commonly use thermosensation, the detection of temperature and its variation, for defensive purposes: to maintain appropriate body temperature and to avoid tissue damage. However, some animals also use thermosensation to go...

... preference vary among fly species in thermotactic two-choice assays. Drosophila Thermosensation Thermotaxis Two-choice assay Optogenetics TrackMate National Institutes of Health http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002 R21MH122987 R01GM140130 Temperature affects all aspects...

... Thermosensation Multidendritic To avoid bodily damage, animals detect potentially harmful stimuli with a specialized sensory system called nociception. This involves peripheral sensory neurons (nociceptors) that have a high threshold for activation by thermal, mechanical, chemical or light stimuli...

... thermosensation behavior behavioral plasticity neural integration thermal gradient Behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans on a thermal gradient has been studied as one of several plastic responses of the organism to environmental signals. C. elegans is suitable for studying neuronal mechanisms...