Worming out social secrets

Alison Mitchell

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6700, 327-327

Abstract: Whereas some nematode worms are solitary, preferring to feed alone, others feed together in large clumps. This behavioural difference has now been pinned down to just one protein, NPR-1, a homologue of human neuropeptide-Y receptors. What's more, solitary and sociable worms differ by a single amino acid in this protein.

Date: 1998
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