research articlejournal article Pheromones: evolving language of chemical communication in nematodes.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Elsevier
Abstract
International audienceNew research reveals how the intricate repertoire of ascarosides--small molecules acting as multifaceted pheromones in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans--has evolved in divergent nematode taxa occupying contrasted ecological niches