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The development of taste responsivity has recently attracted considerable attention from neurophysiologists’ who have studied taste ontogeny in the sheep,2,3 an animal with a lengthy gestation period (circa 150 days) and rats,4,5,6 whose gestation period is considerably shorter, (22 days). In general, it appears that, in sheep, taste development is a prenatal phenomenon such that at birth the system is mature, morphologically and electrophysiologically at least.
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Kehoe, P., Blass, E.M. (1986). Behavioral Responsivity to Tastes in Developing Rats. In: de Caro, G., Epstein, A.N., Massi, M. (eds) The Physiology of Thirst and Sodium Appetite. NATO ASI Series, vol 105. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0366-5_5
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