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Rapid adaptation to food availability by a dopamine-mediated morphogenetic response.
Nature communications - 20 Dec 2011
Adams Diane K, Sewell Mary A, Angerer Robert C, Angerer Lynne M
Abstract excerpt
Food can act as a powerful stimulus, eliciting metabolic, behavioural and developmental responses. These phenotypic changes can alter ecological and evolutionary processes; yet, the molecular mechanisms underlying many plastic phenotypic responses remain unknown. Here we show that dopamine signalling through a type-D(2) receptor mediates developmental plasticity by regulating arm length in pre-feeding sea urchin...
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