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The olfactory neuron AWC promotes avoidance of normally palatable food following chronic dietary restriction

Changes in metabolic state alter foraging behavior and food preference in animals. Here, I show that normally attractive food becomes repulsive to Caenorhabditis elegans if animals are chronically undernourished as a result of alimentary tract defects. This behavioral plasticity is achieved in two w...

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Autor principal: Olofsson, Birgitta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Company of Biologists 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24577446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.099929