Effects of sex and insulin/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling on performance in an associative learning paradigm in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 309-316

  Vellai, Tibor ^a   McCulloch, Diana ^b   Gems, David ^b   Kovács, Attila L ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DAF 18; PROTEIN DAF 2; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENDER BIAS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; HERMAPHRODITISM; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 33748899052     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.061499     Document Type: Article

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