Los cambios en las neuronas gustativas apoyan el surgimiento de un comportamiento adaptativo en las cucarachas

Ayako Wada-Katsumata1, Jules Silverman, Coby Schal

  • 1Department of Entomology and W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 25, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Las cucarachas alemanas desarrollaron rápidamente aversión a la glucosa debido a los cebos tóxicos. Este cambio de comportamiento se debe a una sensibilidad al gusto periférica alterada, donde la glucosa se percibe como un estimulante y un disuasorio.

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