chemosensation

As C. elegans cannot see or hear but must search for food, chemosensation is key to survival.

These cilia play important roles in chemosensation, mechanosensation, and thermosensation.

The Carlson lab studies insect chemosensation using the model organism Drosophila.

Studies have shown homologs in C. elegans might have functions in chemosensation.

Dr. Margolskee has been a pioneer in the application of molecular biology and transgenic animal models to the study of taste transduction and chemosensation.

Two CNG channel subunits, Tax-2 and Tax-4, have been cloned in C. elegans and are responsible for chemosensation, thermosensation, and normal axon outgrowth of some sensory neurons in C. elegans.

C. elegans mediates chemosensation by 32 neurons that are mostly arranged in bilateral pairs on the left and right sides, and it is estimated that there are about 500 G-protein-coupled receptors that act in chemosensation [ 27].