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Osmotic Avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans: Synaptic Function of Two Genes, Orthologues of Human NRXN1 and NLGN1, as Candidates for Autism
Published on: December 11, 2009
Neuroscience: comraderie and nostalgia in nematodes
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021, USA. cori@rockefeller.edu
Current Biology : CB
|October 26, 2005
Abstract:
Two recent papers on social rearing and olfactory imprinting show that early developmental experiences can lead to long-lasting changes in behaviour of the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

