Article
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 predic...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Animals
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Feeding Behavior
- GTP-Binding Proteins
- Genetic Variation
- Helminth Proteins
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Receptors, Neuropeptide Y