Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Cell. 2013 Aug 29;154(5):955-956. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.017.
Animals are often in discrete behavioral states, but it is unclear how one specific state is generated and opposes alternative states. Flavell et al. now identify molecular and neural components in C. elegans that are involved in the generation of dwelling and roaming states.
动物常常处于离散的行为状态,但尚不清楚特定状态是如何产生的,以及如何与其他状态相对立。Flavell 等人现在鉴定出线虫中涉及居住和游动状态产生的分子和神经成分。