Male roundworms are worse at learning from experience than their mates, according to a new study, often to the point of ...

The spatial organisation of the C. elegans brain is modular ... or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.

Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, is a small roundworm (nematode) usually found in the soil in temperate climates all around the world. It feeds on microorganisms like bacteria and can be most ...

Thus, neuronal insulin-like signaling appears to be a key regulator of various essential functions in C. elegans ... of insulin-like signaling in the nervous system.

called UNC-75 in C. elegans and CELF in vertebrates. This mechanism is key to neuronal identity because it enables the selective production of specific proteins in the nervous system. "We have ...

A team of researchers from the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, in collaboration with ...

This valuable study shows that an odorant that is typically thought of as a repellant actually activates both attractant and repellant olfactory neurons in C. elegans. Solid evidence is provided that ...

C. elegans is ideally suited to investigate these questions. In the C. elegans nervous system, all 302 neurons are generated by asymmetric cell division. Since the entire cell lineage is known, the ...