“…Not surprisingly, they have become standard models for the study of gustation. The anatomy (Reutter, 1971(Reutter, , 1978GroverJohnson and Farbman, 1976;Finger and Böttger, 1990;Finger et al, 1991), physiology (Davenport and Caprio, 1982;Kanwal and Caprio, 1983;Caprio et al, 1993), and innervation (Herrick, 1901;Northcutt et al, 2000) of their taste buds are well documented, and detailed information exists concerning their central gustatory pathways (Herrick, 1905;Finger, 1976Finger, , 1978Finger, , 1981Finger, , 1983Finger and Morita, 1985;Morita and Finger, 1985) and gustatorymediated behaviors (Herrick, 1903;Tateda, 1961;Bardach et al, 1967;Atema, 1971;Stewart et al, 1979;Holland and Teeter, 1981).…”