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Sex‐specific pheromone responses in Caenorhabditis elegans
Author(s) -
Wang Chen,
Hobert Oliver
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.15252/embr.201847599
Subject(s) - caenorhabditis elegans , biology , pheromone , sex pheromone , genetics , gene
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][Wan X, 2019] 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.