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SUBMITTER: Narayan A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4791020 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Narayan Anusha A Venkatachalam Vivek V Durak Omer O Reilly Douglas K DK Bose Neelanjan N Schroeder Frank C FC Samuel Aravinthan D T AD Srinivasan Jagan J Sternberg Paul W PW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160222 10
Animals find mates and food, and avoid predators, by navigating to regions within a favorable range of available sensory cues. How are these ranges set and recognized? Here we show that male Caenorhabditis elegans exhibit strong concentration preferences for sex-specific small molecule cues secreted by hermaphrodites, and that these preferences emerge from the collective dynamics of a single male-specific class of neurons, the cephalic sensory neurons (CEMs). Within a single worm, CEM responses ...[more]