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SUBMITTER: Hilbert ZA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6053303 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20180719
Sexually dimorphic behaviors are a feature common to species across the animal kingdom, however how such behaviors are generated from mostly sex-shared nervous systems is not well understood. Building on our previous work which described the sexually dimorphic expression of a neuroendocrine ligand, DAF-7, and its role in behavioral decision-making in <i>C. elegans</i> (Hilbert and Kim, 2017), we show here that sex-specific expression of <i>daf-7</i> is regulated by another neuroendocrine ligand, ...[more]