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Chemosensory neurons function in parallel to mediate a pheromone response in C. elegans.
Neuron - 1 Oct 1996
Schackwitz W S, Inoue T, Thomas J H
Abstract excerpt
Formation of the C. elegans dauer larva is repressed by the chemosensory neurons ADF, ASI, and ASG. Mutant analysis has defined two parallel genetic pathways that control dauer formation. By killing neurons in these mutants, we show that mutations in one of these genetic pathways disrupt dauer repression by ADF, ASI, and ASG. One gene in this pathway is daf-7, which encodes a TGFbeta-related protein. We find that...
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