Chemosensation: tasting with the tail.
Animals employ multiple mechanisms to detect the presence and location of environmental stimuli. Recent work suggests that Caenorhabditis elegans uses chemosensory information provided by spatially distinct sensilla to generate a sensory map of its environment and to avoid noxious compounds.
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Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA. sengupta@brandeis.edu
D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000502:physiology*; D013623:Tail / Q000502:physiology*; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*