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Serotonin promotes exploitation in complex environments by accelerating decision-making

BACKGROUND: Fast responses can provide a competitive advantage when resources are inhomogeneously distributed. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was shown to modulate locomotion on a lawn of bacterial food in serotonin (5-HT)-dependent manners. However, potential roles for serotonergic signaling i...

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Autores principales: Iwanir, Shachar, Brown, Adam S., Nagy, Stanislav, Najjar, Dana, Kazakov, Alexander, Lee, Kyung Suk, Zaslaver, Alon, Levine, Erel, Biron, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4743430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26847342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-016-0232-y