Chemical Communication: Linking Behavior and Physiology

Douglas K Reilly; Jagan Srinivasan

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.031

Chemical Communication: Linking Behavior and Physiology

Curr Biol. 2019 Dec 2;29(23):R1226-R1228. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.031.

Authors

Douglas K Reilly¹, Jagan Srinivasan²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA. Electronic address: dkreilly@wpi.edu.
² Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA; Program of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA. Electronic address: jsrinivasan@wpi.edu.

Abstract

How does physiological state affect the reproductive behavior of an organism? Two new studies in Caenorhabditis elegans implicate an ancient serotonergic neuronal circuit in the link between these two outputs - reproductive behavior and physiology.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins*
Caenorhabditis elegans*
Genitalia
Serotonergic Neurons
Signal Transduction

Substances

Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins

Grants and funding

R01 DC016058/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States