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FMRFamide-like peptides expand the behavioral repertoire of a densely connected nervous system.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Dec 2017
Lee James Siho, Shih Pei-Yin, Schaedel Oren N, Quintero-Cadena Porfirio, Rogers Alicia K, Sternberg Paul W
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Animals, including humans, can adapt to environmental stress through phenotypic plasticity. The free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans can adapt to harsh environments by undergoing a whole-animal change, involving exiting reproductive development and entering the stress-resistant dauer larval stage. The dauer is a dispersal stage with dauer-specific behaviors for finding and stowing onto carrier animals, but...
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