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SUBMITTER: Anderson A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6000145 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anderson Alexandra A McMullan Rachel R
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20180701 1751
One way in which animals minimize the risk of infection is to reduce their contact with contaminated food. Here, we establish a model of pathogen-contaminated food avoidance using the nematode worm <i>Caernorhabditis elegans</i> We find that avoidance of pathogen-contaminated food protects <i>C. elegans</i> from the deleterious effects of infection and, using genetic approaches, demonstrate that multiple sensory neurons are required for this avoidance behaviour. In addition, our results reveal t ...[more]