A modular library of small molecule signals regulates social behaviors in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Srinivasan, Jagan ^a   von Reuss, Stephan H ^b   Bose, Neelanjan ^b   Zaslaver, Alon ^a   Mahanti, Parag ^b   Ho, Margaret C ^a   O'Doherty, Oran G ^b   Edison, Arthur S ^c   Sternberg, Paul W ^a   Schroeder, Frank C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASCAROSIDE; HELMINTH PROTEIN; INDOLE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LIPID; NEUROPEPTIDE Y RECEPTOR; PROTEIN NPR 1; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; INTERNEURON; LIPID OXIDATION; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOSIDES; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHEROMONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRYPTOPHAN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84856475227     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001237     Document Type: Article

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