... of disease vector mosquito larvae showed that each species exhibited strikingly different exploration behaviors. However, species behaved similarly when navigating to preferred cues. Chemosensory Disease vector Chemotaxis Olfaction Gustation Foraging Mosquitoes are global disease vectors...

.... This behavior is triggered by pharyngeal sugar-responsive receptor neurons. Fly Gustation Feeding Dance Innate behavior is triggered by a specific key stimulus in animals ( Tinbergen, 1951 ). Behavioral responses are elicited depending on the quality and strength of the key stimulus but also...

... © 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: Learning context is a key modulator of taste in the honey bee. Gustation Learning Pavlovian conditioning Operant conditioning Negative reinforcement Apis mellifera Taste is the sense that allows animals...

... ) 26 6 2012 29 10 2012 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 cognition Drosophila melanogaster gustation retrieval memory olfaction PKA We restrict ourselves to Pavlovian conditioning. In this form of associative learning, animals learn...

... gustation Associative learning allows animals to predict important events using correlations between the appearance of a signal and a salient outcome such as food or danger. In classical appetitive learning, animals associate a conditioned stimulus (CS), such as an auditory tone...

... that the two tastants may act as negative reinforcers in H. virescens . * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 9 5 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 aversion learning memory gustation Heliothis virescens The ability to learn...

... as chemical signatures that both contain information on location and suitability of the prey. In order to determine how these two wake stimuli are utilised in prey tracking, we conducted experiments in catfish in which either the lateral line or the external gustation was ablated. We found that a functional...

... from the responses to their individual constituents. * e-mail: [email protected] 17 11 1999 17 01 2000 © 2000 by Company of Biologists 2000 gustation chemoreception chemical stimulation grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria local reflex avoidance response...

... codes discussed in the literature. 11 1 1991 © 1991 by Company of Biologists 1991 Leptinotarsa Colorado beetle gustation gustatory coding feeding behaviour host niant selection host plant recognition taste The sense of taste can be pivotal in host recognition...