DAF-2c signaling promotes taste avoidance after starvation in Caenorhabditis elegans by controlling distinct phospholipase C isozymes

Masahiro Tomioka; Moon Sun Jang; Yuichi Iino

doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02956-8

Communications Biology (Jan 2022)

DAF-2c signaling promotes taste avoidance after starvation in Caenorhabditis elegans by controlling distinct phospholipase C isozymes

Masahiro Tomioka,
Moon Sun Jang,
Yuichi Iino

Affiliations

Masahiro Tomioka: Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Moon Sun Jang: Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Yuichi Iino: Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02956-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

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Masahiro Tomioka et al. study the function of a DAF-2c signaling pathway in salt avoidance after conditioning C. elegans with starvation. Their results suggest that taste avoidance behavior may depend on the control of distinct PLC isozymes via DAF-2c

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsbio/

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