title: Chemosensation: tasting with the tail.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA. sengupta@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Piali
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sengupta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000502:physiology*; D013623:Tail / Q000502:physiology*; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*