Neuroecology: Tuning Foraging Strategies to Environmental Variability
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Caenorhabditis elegans has been shown to measure variability in environmental food density, using the information to fine-tune foraging strategies; a compact neural circuit has been identified that responds to large fluctuations in food-related cues and uses dopamine to encode the amount of recently encountered variability.
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Neuroecology.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 25 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015