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Catecholamine receptor polymorphisms affect decision-making in C. elegans.
Nature - 21 Apr 2011
Bendesky Andres, Tsunozaki Makoto, Rockman Matthew V, Kruglyak Leonid, Bargmann Cornelia I
Abstract excerpt
Innate behaviours are flexible: they change rapidly in response to transient environmental conditions, and are modified slowly by changes in the genome. A classical flexible behaviour is the exploration-exploitation decision, which describes the time at which foraging animals choose to abandon a depleting food supply. We have used quantitative genetic analysis to examine the decision to leave a food patch in...
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