**Abbreviations**


*Understanding Taste Using* Drosophila melanogaster *DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89643*

*Animal Models in Medicine and Biology*

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**Criteria for authorship**

GRs Gustatory receptors TRCs Taste receptors cells

ENaCs Epithelial Na<sup>+</sup>

MB Mushroom bodies

DAG Diacylglycerol

GRNs Gustatory receptor neurons MSN Mechanosensory neurons SEZ Sub esophageal zone IRs Ionotropic receptors

GPCRs G-protein coupled receptors OR genes Olfactory receptor genes GFP Green fluorescence protein UAS Upstream activating sequence TRP Transient receptor potential TRPL Transient receptor potential-like

OBP Odorant binding proteins

norpA No receptor potential A plc Phospholipase C

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number IA/I/15/2/502074) awarded to PK.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

the chapter and approved the final version for publication.

channels

AMMC Antennal and mechanosensory motor center

IP3 receptor Inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor

PKD2L1 Polycystic kidney disease 2-like 1 Car4 Carbonic anhydrase isoform 4

aging, dependence on readymade food and consumption of unhealthy junk food in kids. A better understanding of the IRs and other receptors, neural circuits, higher order neurons involved in taste modulation as well as food regulation could provide us with a better understanding about human metabolic disorders and lead to a subsequent development of treatment strategies ultimately benefitting mankind. Recent reports invite exciting new avenues of investigation to determine the higher brain locations that receive taste input from the AMMC, and to trace the circuits by which information is relayed to motor neurons and neurons of the mushroom body to control feeding behavior and associations with appetitive and aversive learning.

This work is supported by Wellcome trust/DBT India Alliance Fellowship (grant

SK and PK both substantially contributed to the conception and design of the work. Both participated in drafting and revising the work, made the figures, wrote

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