| Title: | Social and sexual behaviors in C. elegans: the first fifty years |
| Address: | "Departments of Biomedical Genetics, Neuroscience, and Biology, Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA" |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01677063.2020.1838512 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1563-5260 (Electronic) 0167-7063 (Print) 0167-7063 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "For the first 25 years after the landmark 1974 paper that launched the field, most C. elegans biologists were content to think of their subjects as solitary creatures. C. elegans presented no shortage of fascinating biological problems, but some of the features that led Brenner to settle on this species-in particular, its free-living, self-fertilizing lifestyle-also seemed to reduce its potential for interesting social behavior. That perspective soon changed, with the last two decades bringing remarkable progress in identifying and understanding the complex interactions between worms. The growing appreciation that C. elegans behavior can only be meaningfully understood in the context of its ecology and evolution ensures that the coming years will see similarly exciting progress" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Caenorhabditis elegans/*physiology Ethology/*history Feeding Behavior/physiology Female Glycolipids/physiology Hermaphroditic Organisms/*physiology History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Male Pheromones/physiology Sexual Behavior, Animal/phys;Neuroscience;" |
| Notes: | "MedlinePortman, Douglas S eng R01 GM108885/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ R01 GM130136/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ R01 GM140415/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ Historical Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural England 2020/11/05 J Neurogenet. 2020 Sep-Dec; 34(3-4):389-394. doi: 10.1080/01677063.2020.1838512. Epub 2020 Nov 4" |
