Uncovering pharyngeal sour taste receptors in Drosophila melanogaster reveals a novel mechanism for detecting ingested carboxylic acids, expanding understanding of how insects internally sense and respond to appetitive tastants.

Fruit flies detect cholesterol through ionotropic receptors in taste, leading to active avoidance despite dietary necessity.

Fruit flies have special neurons in their pharynx with ionotropic receptors to prevent consuming too much salt, which was confirmed using a variety of behavioral and physiological assays.

The unfolded protein response sensor/transducer IRE1-mediated splicing of XBP1 mRNA encoding its active downstream transcription factor to maintain the homeostasis of the endoplasmic reticulum is sufficient for growth and development of medaka fish.

Olfactory neurons of insects, once thought to express only a single type of olfactory receptor, exhibit widespread co-expression of receptors from multiple chemosensory gene families.

Disruptions to eye field size have little impact on final eye size due to tissue compensatory mechanisms.

Molecular-genetic, neural imaging and behavioral analyses reveal how Drosophila melanogaster sense fatty acids, important nutrient compounds, through multimeric Ionoptropic Receptors complexes.

Combined single nucleus RNAseq and ATACseq enabled the first molecular resolution of all hindbrain rhombomeres, the derivation of a unique gene regulatory network for each rhombomere, and the identification of gene expression changes as rhombomeres form from early progenitor pools.

scRNA-seq revealed the fish kidney is a dual-functional entity with functionalities of both primary and secondary lymphoid organs and highlighted the multifaced biology of kidney in ancient vertebrates.

Derepression of transcripts from hypomethylated pericentromeric repeats triggers an innate immune response in an animal model of Immunodeficency, Centromere and Facial anomalies (ICF) syndrome.