Nature - The I3 pharyngeal enteric neuron in Caenorhabditis elegans detects high-salt conditions, and the GLR-9 ionotropic salt receptor expressed specifically in I3 regulates genes related to salt...

Understanding how animal behavior evolves remains a major challenge, with few studies linking genetic changes to differences in neural function and...

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Noradrenergic circuits support and balance aggressive behavioural states in predatory nematodes, distinguish predatory from non-predatory nematode species and are associated with the evolution of comp...

Nature - Nanoparticle-based ‘microgauges’ are developed for in vivo force sensing and deployed in C. elegans to investigate how mechanical force correlates with electrical signalling in...

The original 100.3 Mb reference genome for Caenorhabditis elegans, generated from the wild-type labo

One avenue to better understand brain evolution is to map molecular patterns of evolutionary changes

Scientific Reports - Evolutionary plasticity in nematode Hox gene complements and genomic loci arrangement

Sexual systems evolve frequently in nematodes. Through large-scale genomic analyses, Yoshida et al. find rapid chromosome evolution, sex chromosome turnover and acquisition of stochastic sex determina...

The relative contributions of intraflagellar transport (IFT) and cilia structure to sensory neuron responses remains unclear. This study reveals unexpected complexity in the contribution of IFT and ci...

Based on molecular markers, mating experiments, morphological observations and ecological data, two Pristionchus species...

Author summary Nematodes are a highly diverse group of animals found in a wide variety of habitats and sensory systems. In particular, light-induced behavior has been found to differ among species. Th...