Vogt, K. (2025). The texture-taste connection: Multimodal sensory neurons in fly larvae.  PLoS Biol. 23(1): e3003000.

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Eating is a multisensory experience: food's smell, look, and texture are as important as taste. A new study in PLOS Biology shows that fly larvae respond to food texture and integrate information from different modalities within a single gustatory neuron.

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