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Recognition of familiar food activates feeding via an endocrine serotonin signal in Caenorhabditis elegans.
eLife - 5 Feb 2013
Song Bo-Mi, Faumont Serge, Lockery Shawn, Avery Leon
Abstract excerpt
Familiarity discrimination has a significant impact on the pattern of food intake across species. However, the mechanism by which the recognition memory controls feeding is unclear. Here, we show that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans forms a memory of particular foods after experience and displays behavioral plasticity, increasing the feeding response when they subsequently recognize the familiar food. We...
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