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Bee
research sheds light on human sweet perception, metabolic disorders
Scientists
at Arizona State University have discovered that honey bees may teach us about
basic connections between taste perception and metabolic disorders in humans.
By
experimenting with honey bee genetics, researchers have identified connections
between sugar sensitivity, diabetic physiology and carbohydrate metabolism.
Bees and humans may partially share these connections.
In a study
published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics (Public Library of Science),
Gro Amdam, an associate professor, and Ying Wang, a research scientist, in the
School of Life Sciences in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, explain
how for the first time, they’ve successfully inactivated two genes in the bees’
“master regulator” module that controls food-related behaviors. By doing so,
researchers discovered a possible molecular link between sweet taste perception
and the state of internal energy.
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