A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the ...

Researchers have discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow the taste of food texture. The study found that the fly peripheral taste organ has neurons with texture-tasting mechanoreceptors ...

These data were originally made available as part of the previously mentioned manuscript. We use them in the following preprint: Betzel, R., Puxeddu, M. G., & Seguin, C. (2023). Hierarchical ...

Normal or wild-type (left) and mutant (right) contractile muscle filaments of a Drosophila larva showing actin filaments (red) and myosin filaments (green). In normal contractile muscle filaments, the ...

Figure 1. The Drosophila Larval musculature and Representative body muscles — A) Lateral view of a Drosophila 3rd instar larva that carries a muscle specific red fluorescent transgene that highlights ...

The researchers didn't gain their insights from humans but instead by studying the larvae of the fruit fly Drosophila. These ...

A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow ...