This article reviews the literature on learning and memory in the soil-dwelling nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans. Paradigms include nonassociative learning, associative learning …

DGKs (diacylglycerol kinases) are members of a unique and conserved family of
intracellular lipid kinases that phosphorylate DAG (diacylglycerol), catalysing its conversion …

C. elegans is widely used to dissect how neural circuits and genes generate behavior.
During locomotion, worms initiate backward movement to change locomotion direction …

Caenorhabditis elegans lives in a complex habitat in which they routinely experience large
fluctuations in temperature, and encounter physical obstacles that vary in size and …

Many primary sensory cilia exhibit unique architectures that are critical for transduction of
specific sensory stimuli. Although basic ciliogenic mechanisms are well described, how …

Like other ectotherms, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans and the fruit fly Drosophila
melanogaster rely on behavioral strategies to stabilize their body temperature. Both animals …

Autophagy is a cellular degradation pathway essential for neuronal health and function.
Autophagosome biogenesis occurs at synapses, is locally regulated, and increases in …

Animals must ensure that they can execute behaviors important for physiological
homeostasis under constantly changing environmental conditions. The neural mechanisms …

Many animals use their olfactory systems to learn to avoid dangers, but how neural circuits
encode naive and learned olfactory preferences, and switch between those preferences, is …

Humans and other animals can sense temperature changes as small as 0.1° C. How
animals achieve such exquisite sensitivity is poorly understood. By recording from the C …