Chemosensory neurons translate perception of external chemical cues, including odorants,
tastants, and pheromones, into information that drives attraction or avoidance motor …

Caenorhabditis elegans has been proven to be a useful model organism for investigating
molecular and cellular aspects of numerous human diseases. More recently, investigators …

Femtosecond laser ablation permits non‐invasive surgeries in the bulk of a sample with
submicrometer resolution. We briefly review the history of optical surgery techniques and the …

To quantitatively understand chemosensory behaviors, it is desirable to present many
animals with repeatable, well-defined chemical stimuli. To that end, we describe a …

Caenorhabditis elegans shows chemotaxis to various odorants and water-soluble
chemoattractants such as NaCl. Previous studies described the pirouette mechanism for …

The same odorant can induce attractive or repulsive responses depending on its
concentration in various animals including humans. However, little is understood about the …

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

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 …

Pheromone responses are highly context dependent. For example, the C. elegans
pheromone ascaroside C9 (ascr# 3) is repulsive to wild-type hermaphrodites, attractive to …

This Review discusses the potential usefulness of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans as a
model organism for chemists interested in studying living systems. C. elegans, a 1 mm long …