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Communications Biology - Removal of nlr-1/CNTNAP from monoamine neurons in C. elegans reveals neuron-specific roles in foraging behaviors, including a critical role for nlr-1 in dopamine neuron...

C. elegans aggregate in large clumps during feeding. Here, the authors find conserved autism-associated genes mediate distinct molecular and circuit signaling components that tune C. elegans feed...