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SUBMITTER: Oren-Suissa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4865429 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oren-Suissa Meital M Bayer Emily A EA Hobert Oliver O
Nature 20160504 7602
Whether and how neurons that are present in both sexes of the same species can differentiate in a sexually dimorphic manner is not well understood. A comparison of the connectomes of the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite and male nervous systems reveals the existence of sexually dimorphic synaptic connections between neurons present in both sexes. Here we demonstrate sex-specific functions of these sex-shared neurons and show that many neurons initially form synapses in a hybrid manner in bot ...[more]