Vitamin B12 induces memory of predation through vitellogenin provisioning.

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Nutritional effects on trait inheritance are widespread in animals including human famines, representing some of the most severe environmental influences on organismal phenotypes and can be transmitted over generations. However, the chemical nature of the stimuli inducing such memory remains elusive. The nematode Pristionchus pacificus exhibits mouth-form plasticity including predation and responds to a...

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