Diverse and potentially manipulative signalling with ascarosides in the model nematode C. elegans

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Diaz, Sylvia Anaid ^a,b   Brunet, Vincent ^a   Lloyd Jones, Guy C ^a   Spinner, William ^a   Wharam, Barney ^a   Viney, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrest; Ascaroside; C. elegans; Dauer; Signalling

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HONEST SIGNALING; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEMATODE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SIGNALING; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

GLYCOLIPID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD; GLYCOLIPIDS; LARVA; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84899116325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-46     Document Type: Article

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