Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Decoding the intensity of sensory input by two glutamate receptors in one C. elegans interneuron

  • Wenjuan Zou,
  • Jiajun Fu,
  • Haining Zhang,
  • Kang Du,
  • Wenming Huang,
  • Junwei Yu,
  • Shitian Li,
  • Yuedan Fan,
  • Howard A. Baylis,
  • Shangbang Gao,
  • Rui Xiao,
  • Wei Ji,
  • Lijun Kang,
  • Tao Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06819-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Little is known about how stimuli of different intensities result in different behavioral outcomes in C. elegans. In this study, the authors demonstrate how distinct signal patterns, involving different glutamate receptors, in a single interneuron AIB can encode differential behavioral outputs depending on the stimulus intensity