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Tong Pan1, Elizabeth A Ronan1, X Z Shawn Xu1
1Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|May 24, 2022
Abstract:
The parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis locates human hosts via thermal cues through unknown neural mechanisms. A new study finds that the heat-sensing neuron AFD mediates attraction to human body heat. Interestingly, this neuron also mediates thermotaxis in the nematode C. elegans.

