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SUBMITTER: Greene JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5161598 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Greene Joshua S JS Brown Maximillian M Dobosiewicz May M Ishida Itzel G IG Macosko Evan Z EZ Zhang Xinxing X Butcher Rebecca A RA Cline Devin J DJ McGrath Patrick T PT Bargmann Cornelia I CI
Nature 20161031 7628
The optimal foraging strategy in a given environment depends on the number of competing individuals and their behavioural strategies. Little is known about the genes and neural circuits that integrate social information into foraging decisions. Here we show that ascaroside pheromones, small glycolipids that signal population density, suppress exploratory foraging in Caenorhabditis elegans, and that heritable variation in this behaviour generates alternative foraging strategies. We find that natu ...[more]