The texture-taste connection: Multimodal sensory neurons in fly larvae

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. © 2025 Katrin Vogt. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.