{"id":65135,"date":"2023-03-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-03-20\/las-moscas-confirman-la-existencia-de-un-sexto-sabor-el-alcalino.html"},"modified":"2023-03-20T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:00:00","slug":"las-moscas-confirman-la-existencia-de-un-sexto-sabor-el-alcalino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/las-moscas-confirman-la-existencia-de-un-sexto-sabor-el-alcalino\/","title":{"rendered":"Las moscas confirman la existencia de un sexto sabor, el alcalino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las moscas saborean m\u00e1s que los humanos. Estos \u00faltimos, y todos los mam\u00edferos, tienen receptores en la lengua del dulce, el salado, el amargo y el \u00e1cido. Hace unas d\u00e9cadas se descubri\u00f3 la existencia de otros espec\u00edficos para el umami. Ahora, un grupo de cient\u00edficos ha demostrado que <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2015\/06\/17\/ciencia\/1434536447_666191.html\" >la mosca de la fruta<\/a> (<i>Drosophila melanogaster<\/i>) detecta lo que ser\u00eda un sexto sabor, el alcalino. Propio de sustancias que, como la sosa c\u00e1ustica, tienen un pH elevado, esta capacidad de detectarlo les dar\u00eda una ventaja al evitar comida y entornos potencialmente peligrosos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-03-20\/las-moscas-confirman-la-existencia-de-un-sexto-sabor-el-alcalino.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un grupo de cient\u00edficos descubre que su boca y sus patas saborean las sustancias con pH elevado y potencialmente nocivas<\/p>","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65136,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65135\/revisions\/65136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}