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Natural variation in a neuropeptide Y receptor homolog modifies social behavior and food response in C. elegans.
Cell - 4 Sept 1998
de Bono M, Bargmann C I
Abstract excerpt
Natural isolates of C. elegans exhibit either solitary or social feeding behavior. Solitary foragers move slowly on a bacterial lawn and disperse across it, while social foragers move rapidly on bacteria and aggregate together. A loss-of-function mutation in the npr-1 gene, which encodes a predicted G protein-coupled receptor similar to neuropeptide Y receptors, causes a solitary strain to take on social...
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