A Sexually Conditioned Switch of Chemosensory Behavior in C. elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Sakai, Naoko ^a   Iwata, Ryo ^a,c   Yokoi, Saori ^a   Butcher, Rebecca A ^b,d   Clardy, Jon ^b   Tomioka, Masahiro ^a   Iino, Yuichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^d University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STARVATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASTE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; PHEROMONES; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84879819827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068676     Document Type: Article

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