A conserved neuropeptide system links head and body motor circuits to enable adaptive behavior
Shankar Ramachandran, Navonil Banerjee, Raja Bhattacharya, Michele L Lemons, Jeremy Florman, Christopher M Lambert, Denis Touroutine, Kellianne Alexander, Liliane Schoofs, Mark J. Alkema, Isabel Beets, Michael M. Francis
The paper shows that the NLP-12 neuropeptide system in C. elegans modulates head and body motor circuits through CKR-1 and CKR-2 GPCRs to regulate food search behavior.
eLife · Nov 12, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience