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ArticleeLife2021

Inversion of pheromone preference optimizes foraging in

Martina Dal Bello, Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Frank C Schroeder, Jeff Gore

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. On collective behavior inFrontiers in neurorobotics · 2025
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  7. Nematode Pheromones: Structures and Functions.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Martina Dal BelloPhysics of Living Systems Group, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3706-2929
Alfonso Pérez-EscuderoPhysics of Living Systems Group, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4782-6139
Frank C SchroederBoyce Thompson Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4420-0237
Jeff GorePhysics of Living Systems Group, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4583-8555

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
Small molecule signaling in C. elegansR35GM131877 · NIGMS · BOYCE THOMPSON INST FOR PLANT RESEARCH · PI Frank Clemens Schroeder · 2019 to 2026
$5.0M
European Molecular Biology Organization ALTF 818-2014Human Frontier Science Program LT000537/2015NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131877NIH HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Foraging animals have to locate food sources that are usually patchily distributed and subject to competition. Deciding when to leave a food patch is challenging and requires the animal to integrate information about food availability with cues signaling the presence of other individuals (e.g., pheromones). To study how social information transmitted via pheromones can aid foraging decisions, we investigated the behavioral responses of the model animal

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AnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansFeeding BehaviorPheromonesPheromonesassociative learningbehavioral plasticityC. elegansecologyoptimal foragingpheromonespheromone valence

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PMID34227470
PMCPMC8260229

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