Title: | Sex-specific pheromone responses in Caenorhabditis elegans |
Address: | "Department of Biological Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1469-3178 (Electronic) 1469-221X (Print) 1469-221X (Linking) |
Abstract: | "The characterization of receptors for sex pheromones provides important clues for understanding the mechanisms controlling animal mating and reproduction. In this issue, Wan et al 1 identify a putative sex pheromone receptor, the G protein-coupled receptor SRD-1, acting in a single Caenorhabditis elegans olfactory neuron class, called AWA, to mediate male attraction to volatile sex pheromones. Like in other systems, C. elegans sex pheromone elicits sex-specific responses even though sex pheromone activates sensory neurons of both sexes" |
Keywords: | Animals Caenorhabditis elegans *Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins Female Male Neurons Pheromones *Sex Attractants; |
Notes: | "MedlineWang, Chen Hobert, Oliver eng Comment Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2019/02/23 EMBO Rep. 2019 Mar; 20(3):e47599. doi: 10.15252/embr.201847599. Epub 2019 Feb 21" |