Fig. 5: Effect of starvation on taste neuron sensitivity.
Electrophysiological recording from different gustatory sensilla on the labellum A. in sated and starved tßhnM18 mutants and their respective controls and B. in sated and starved usual wild type flies. Extracellular action potentials within 1 s after stimulation onset were counted and plotted as boxplots. Numbers represent the sample size of the recorded sensilla, Different letters denote significant differences (Wilcoxon rank sum test, p < 0.05 with Bonferroni correction).