Food sensing controls C. elegans reproductive behavior by neuromodulatory disinhibition.

Abstract excerpt

Like many organisms, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans incorporates an assessment of environmental quality into its reproductive strategy. C. elegans hermaphrodites release fertilized eggs into food-rich environments but retain them in the absence of food. Here, we report the discovery of a neural circuit required for the modulation of reproductive behavior by food sensing. A mutation that electrically...

Topics

• Animals
• Caenorhabditis elegans
• Neuropeptides
• Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
• Reproduction
• Dopamine
• Sexual Behavior, Animal