Department of Biology, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845, Japan.
Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.
eNeuro. 2017 Nov 20;4(6). doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0324-17.2017. eCollection 2017 Nov-Dec.
To survive, all animals must find, inspect, and ingest food. Behavioral coordination and control of feeding is therefore a challenge that animals must face. Here, we focus on how the gustatory system guides the precise execution of behavioral sequences that promote ingestion and suppresses competing behaviors. We summarize principles learnt from , where underlying sensory neuronal mechanisms are illustrated in great detail. Moreover, we compare these principles with findings in other animals, where such coordination plays prominent roles. These examples suggest that the use of gustatory information for feeding coordination has an ancient origin and is prevalent throughout the animal kingdom.
为了生存，所有动物都必须寻找、检查和摄取食物。因此，行为协调和进食控制是动物必须面对的挑战。在这里，我们重点关注味觉系统如何指导促进摄取和抑制竞争行为的精确行为序列的执行。我们总结了从中学到的原理，其中详细说明了潜在的感觉神经元机制。此外，我们将这些原理与其他动物中的发现进行了比较，这些动物中的协调起着重要作用。这些例子表明，利用味觉信息进行摄食协调具有古老的起源，并在整个动物界中普遍存在。
