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Assaying Predatory Feeding Behaviors in Pristionchus and Other Nematodes
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Invertebrate neuroethology: food play and sex
Carolina Rezával1, Caroline C G Fabre, Stephen F Goodwin
1Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|December 14, 2011
Abstract:
How do animals perceive their environment and make appropriate behavioral choices based on those perceptions? New data have uncovered a novel sensory pathway that promotes Drosophila male courtship behavior in response to food.
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