Sexual Dimorphisms: How Sex-Shared Neurons Generate Sex-Specific Behaviors

Navonil Banerjee; Elissa Hallem

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.066

Sexual Dimorphisms: How Sex-Shared Neurons Generate Sex-Specific Behaviors

Curr Biol. 2018 Mar 19;28(6):R254-R256. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.066.

Authors

Navonil Banerjee¹, Elissa Hallem²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: ehallem@ucla.edu.

PMID: 29558638
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.066

Abstract

How sexually dimorphic behaviors are represented in the brain is a long-standing question. Two new studies in C. elegans uncover novel molecular mechanisms that allow neurons shared by opposite sexes to generate distinct sex-specific behaviors.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins*
Female
Male
Netrins
Neurons
Sex Characteristics*
Sexual Behavior

Substances

Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
Netrins
UNC-6 protein, C elegans